Angela L. Owens

About Angela

Internationally recognized for her “beauty and musicality” (The London Times), as well as her “attractively full-bodied, passionate soprano voice” (Opera News), Angela L. Owens has appeared in opera, theatre, concert, television, and film across the globe and throughout the U.S. Internationally, Owens’ credits include performances with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Theater München, Koninklijk Theater Carré, West Australian Opera and Opéra Comique (Paris), as well as The Dallas Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Opera Ebony, Encompass New Opera, and Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Regional theatre credits include Hattie in Kiss Me Kate, Mrs. Brown in Me and My Gal, Flo in Good News (Mac-Haydn Theater), Alice in I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Susannah in Tintypes, (Martin Theatre), Belladova in Phantom and Josephine Baker in the world premiere of Dodsworth (Casa Mañana Theater).

A frequent collaborator on new works, Owens has premiered pieces at the Composers Now Festival with Tania León, Trilogy: An Opera Company, National Sawdust at Rockefeller Center, and the live adaptation of WQXR’s Terrence McKnight's radio documentary, A Beautiful Symphony Of Brotherhood for New Jersey’s UPAC Auditorium, as well as McNight’s recent commission with the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Handel: Made in America. She is a member of the world-renowned American Spiritual Ensemble (Everett McCorvey), Chorale Le Chateau (Damien Sneed) and the New York Philharmonic Chorus (Malcolm J. Merriweather).

As an in-demand clinician and educator, Owens has presented masterclasses and lecture series for Columbia University, Wagner College, Ithaca College, and the Kaufman Center at Hill House among others.

On television, Owens' credits include Investigation Discovery’s Shadow of Doubt and The Perfect Murder, CBS’s Bull, and Netflix’s Luke Cage.

Owens currently serves on the voice faculty at Manhattan School of Music as well as maintaining a private studio.

I aim to explore, enhance and expand the distinctive artistic attributes possessed by each student. I also enable my students to critically evaluate performance practice and vocal pedagogy, empowering them to link theory and practice to the professional world.