Soprano Angela (Adams) St. Pierre is a native of Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from Westminster Choir College with a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1992. While at Westminster, she studied voice with Lorna MacDonald, and was a member of the Westminster Singers under Allen Crowell and the Westminster Choir under Joseph Flummerfelt.
She performed the roles of Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Constance Fletcher in Thompson’s The Mother of Us All for the Westminster Opera Theater. In 1991, she sang and recorded the role of the maid in Gian Carlo Menotti’s European premiere of his opera Goya at the Spoleto Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.
At Florida State University, where she received her Master of Music, Vocal Performance in 1997, Angela studied with Yvonne Ciannella and performed the roles of Gossip #1 in Ibert’s Angelique and Mariane in Mechem’s Tartuffe. Her performance of the role of Gabriel in Haydn’s Creation under conductor Robert Shaw at Florida State was described as “filled with ethereal enthusiasm, filled with ringing high notes and nicely aspirated words.”
