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Angela Gooch has spent a great deal of her career as an operatic soprano. An avid performer, Ms. Gooch has appeared in many opera’s with Boston’s most innovative company , Opera Boston, dedicated to presenting innovative repertoire choices and important but rarely performed works. From Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito to Verdi’s Ernani, She has performed and covered a variety of roles in operas including Der Freischütz, Fidelio, The Nose, The Bartered Bride, Candide, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Le Grande Duchess of Gérolstein, the world premiere of Zhou Long’s Madame WhiteSnake and Robert Ward’s Pulitzer prize winning opera The Crucible. Other credits also include Gianni Schicchi, Don Pasquale, Der Rosenkavlier, Die Fledermaus, and The Telephone, Ms. Gooch performed as the Voice of the Fountain in Golijov’s Grammy award winning Ainadamar under the direction of Peter Sellars. She also created the role of Mary Lincoln in the world premiere of Eric Sawyer’s Our American Cousin with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and can be heard on the BMOP/sound label. Ms. Gooch recently recorded Barber’s Hand of Bridge and Rorem’s Our Town which received rave reviews from Opera News. “Angela Gooch’s lovely soprano has an attractive clarity which makes her eminently credible as Emily’s mother. Her heart-tugging aria projects very nicely over the chorus at the wedding” 

Ms. Gooch has performed with various symphonies and festivals including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival, Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, The Florestan Project and most recently, at the Monadnock Festival. She has also appeared as a featured performer at international venues including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the United States Presidential Yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, and in Italy at the Casa Verdi.