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Soprano Angel Blue
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The Times

Neil Fisher

Tuesday December 29 2020

The plan, Angel Blue freely admits, is “nuts”. “Absolutely, 100 per cent nuts,” the American soprano says from the study in her home in New Jersey, where her husband and nine-year-old stepson have been seeing a lot more of her during the past eight months.

Blue, one of a new generation of bankable and forthright opera stars, was hoping that her streamed Christmas recital for the Metropolitan Opera could be done from New York City, even if the opera house itself is closed. “I could drive — it’s like 15, 20 minutes from my house. But that didn’t work out.”

The Metropolitan Opera

Thursday AT 4 PM ET

Met Stars Live in Concert: New Year’s Eve Gala

The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring a dazzling quartet of Met stars—sopranos Angel Blue and Pretty Yende, and tenors Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani—live from the stunning Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany. Gala Committee packages with enhanced benefits are also available at a range of donation levels.