BIOGRAPHY
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 be a soloist in Focus on Händel featuring Handel's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day with Juilliard 415, the Juilliard Historical Performance Department's period-instrument Baroque orchestra, conducted by Lionel Meunier.
Ms. Michels was named a District Winner of the MET Laffont Competition in Los Angeles, CA, 4th prize winner of the Pasadena Vocal Competition, and the 3rd prize winner in Premiere Opera Foundation's 2023 Competition. Ms. Michels completed her residency at Florida Grand Opera in May 2023 after two seasons with the company. In In the 22/23 season, she performed the roles of Carolina in Cimarosa’s El matrimonio secreto, a Spanish translation of Il matrimonio segreto, and Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi accompanied by Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost. In the summer of 2022, Ms. Michels was granted the Brown Loranger Fellowship with SongFest in San Francisco, CA working with composers such as Jake Heggie and John Musto. During the 21/22 season at FGO, she performed the roles of Lucy in Fellow Travelers and A Page in Rigoletto, while also placing as a 2022 Oregon District Winner with the MET Opera Laffont Competition. Summer of 2021, she joined the Aspen Music Festival as a Fleming Artist headed by world- renowned soprano, Renée Fleming, covering the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.
An avid lover of art song and recital, she presented and titled her Master’s II recital, Oleaje, or “sea foam” prior to the completion of her graduate work in May 2021 at Rice University under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen King. Following the COVID-19 cancellation of her scheduled performance of Elisa in Händel’s Tolomeo, she recorded the role of Une Pastourelle from Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with Rice Opera as part of a digital performance. Additionally, Ms. Michels was a soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Rheinland-Pfalz International Choir in Kaiserslautern, Germany during Christmas 2019. She was the 19/20 recipient of both the Patrick Summers Award and the
Dr. Joseph A. and Ida Kirkland Mullen Scholarship for Advanced Study at The Shepherd School. During the 18/19 season, Ms. Michels sang the title role in Susannah with Rice Opera under the baton of Houston Grand Opera’s artistic and music director, Patrick Summers, and directed by Loren Meeker. Completing her first year at Rice in the summer of 2019, she joined Des Moines Metro Opera as an Apprentice Artist where she study- covered Mimì in La bohème.
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Ms. Michels received her Bachelor’s of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in April 2018 with a degree in Voice Performance and a minor in Psychology. During her time at CCM, she studied under Dr. Gwendolyn Coleman and explored a variety of operatic repertoire with CCM’s Opera d’arte ranging from Queen Elizabeth in Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece, Maria Stuarda in 2016, Ms. Wordsworth in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring in 2017, and Lucy England in Menotti’s contemporary one act The Telephone in 2018. A soloist in the concert and oratorio repertoire at CCM, she was the soprano soloist in DvoÅ™ák’s Te Deum and Bach’s B Minor Mass.
An alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s 2016 Young Artist Vocal Academy, she was featured as a Colburn Fellow at SongFest the same summer and attended the Academmia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti the summer following, where she studied with the late Dr. Barbara Clark. In the competition arena, she received an Encouragement Award with the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2021 and 2018, and 2nd place in the 2017 Three Arts Scholarship Fund with the Cincinnati Women’s Club. She is also a 2016 and 2017 2nd place recipient of the CCM Gorno/Powell Competition in Voice. Born in the U.K., but raised in Florida, Hawaii,and Oregon, Ms. Michels considers the West Coast home.
