PAGE MICHELS
SOPRANO
“OPULENT TIMBRE AND HIGHLY NUANCED DYNAMIC PALETTE"
-OPERA NEWS MAGAZINE
NOMINATED FOR
"BEST PERFORMER IN A MUSICAL"
as LAURETTA in FLORIDA GRAND OPERA'S
2023 PRODUCTION OF GIANNI SCHICCHI
-BROADWAY WORLD AWARDS
2024/2025 SEASON
Focus on Händel
Conducted by Lionel Meunier, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
soprano soloist with Michael Butler, tenor & Luna Park, soprano
Alice Tully Hall, The Juilliard School, New York City, NY
May 3
MET Opera Laffont Competition
Washington District, USA
January 12, 2025
Britten's
Turn of the Screw
Miss Jessell
Conducted by Zachary Schwartzman
Rosemary & Meredith Wilson Theatre, The Juilliard School,
New York City, NY
February 19, 21, 23
Prestini's Silent Light
Marianne (cover) and Esther (cover)
National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
September 26, 27, 28, 29
2023/2024 SEASON
Semi-finalist | advanced to finals
January 13, 2024
PASADENA VOCAL
COMPETITION
3rd Place Prize Winner
December 17, 2023
PREMIERE OPERA FOUNDATION COMPETITION
Los Angeles, CA | District winner
January 21, 2024
MET OPERA LAFFONT COMPETITION
PASADENA VOCAL
COMPETITION
FINALS
Finalist
February 3, 2024
MET OPERA LAFFONT COMPETITION REGIONAL
Los Angeles, CA
February 10, 2024
Palm Springs Opera Guild Season Closing Concert
Palm Springs, CA
May 1, 2024
AMERICAN
CONTEMPORARY
BALLET
soprano soloist | Nutcracker
December 7, 14, 21, 23
2022/2023 SEASON
in Proving Up by Mazzoli
Opera Steamboat | Steamboat Springs, CO
Saturday, August 5, 2023, 7pm
Friday, August 11, 2023, 7pm
MA ZEGNER
Page Michels, soprano
Alaina de Bellevue, piano
works by Rachmaninoff, Turina, and Grieg
Opera Steamboat | Steamboat Springs, CO
Hayden Granary, Hayden, Colorado
Thursday, August 10, 2023, 7pm
PAGE MICHELS
IN CONCERT
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater | soprano soloist
First Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 7pm
in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini
Opera Steamboat | Steamboat Springs, CO
Sunday, August 6, 2023, 2pm
Saturday, August 12, 2023, 2pm
LAURETTA
CAROLINA
in El matrimonio secreto by Domenico Cimarosa
Conducted by Darwin Aquino | Directed by Elena Araoz
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
Nov 13, 2022, at 2pm
LAURETTA
in Gianni Schicchi & Buoso’s Ghost
By Giacomo Puccini & Michael Ching
Conducted by Michael Ching | Directed by Mo Zhou
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
Saturday, Jan 28, 2023, 7pm
Sunday, Jan 29, 2023, 2pm
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023, 8pm
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Thursday, Feb 9, 2023, 7pm
Saturday, Feb 11, 2023, 7pm
Commended in May 2023 by Opera News for her “opulent timbre and highly nuanced dynamic palette”, American soprano Page Michels is an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies student at The Juilliard School. In September 2024, Ms. Michels is covering the roles of Esther and Marianne in the premiere of Paola Pestini and Royce Vavrek's new chamber opera, Silent Light, with National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. While at Juilliard this year, she will be singing the role of Miss Jessel in Britten's Turn of the Screw in February, conducted by Zachary Schwartzman, and will be a soloist in Focus on Händel featuring Händel's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day with Juilliard 415, the Historical Performance Department's period-instrument Baroque orchestra, conducted by Lionel Meunier.
Opera News
“Smack in the middle of the turmoil, Puccini gives us one of opera’s greatest hits, Lauretta’s “O mio babbino caro,” and FGO Studio artist Page Michels, with an opulent timbre and highly nuanced dynamic palette, achieved a rendition that could stand up to the best of her predecessors–no small accomplishment for a young singer taking on an iconic favorite.”
-Robert Croan
May 2023
South Florida Classical Review
“Page Michels made an independent-minded ingénue with considerable power over her father and a large, darkly colored soprano to match. Michels and Caalotta’s voices blended wonderfully in ardent duets.”
-Lawrence Budmen
Jan 2023
Opera Now
“Their Sunday counterparts Page Michels and Ashley Shalna demonstrated ...understanding of their characters’ vicissitudes, with well-projected voices, effectively nuanced as their circumstances changed through the opera’s narrative.”
-Karyl Charna Lynn
February 2023
RECORDINGS
Page Michels Soprano
Ach, ich fühl’s | Mozart | Page Michels
Embroidery Aria | Britten | Page Michels
Furie terribili | Handel | Page Michels
