Soprano Angela Meade will sing the title role of Verdi's Aida on April twenty-seven, thirty and May six, ten, and soprano Leah Crocetto will complete the running on May thirteen and eighteen, both replacing Michelle Bradley, who's withdrawn for personal reasons. Earlier this season at the Met, Meade stepped in to sing the title role of Bellini's Norma and also starred as Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi's Don Carlo. Other highlights at the ho comprise her debut as Elvira in Verdi's Ernani in two thousand-eighth, Margherita in Boito's Mefistofele, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and the title roles of Rossini's Semiramide and Donizetti's Anna Bolena.

She was a winner of the Met's Eric and Dominique Laffont Contest (previously National Council Auditions) in two thousand-seventh and the two thousand twelve recipient of the Met's Beverly Sills Award, established by Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman. Other recent performances comprise Elena in Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani at La Scala; Leonora in Verdi's La Forza del Destino in concert in A Coruña; the title role of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at the Bavarian State Opera; Aida at the Teatro Regio di Torino, Arena di Verona, and Gran Teatre del Liceu; Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera in concert at the Verbier Festival; Elvira at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Norma at the Teatro Regio di Parma; Anna Bolena at the Teatro Carlo Felice; Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre in concert at Seattle Opera; Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; and Elisabetta I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux at LA Opera.

Crocetto made her Met debut singing Liù in Puccini's Turandot in two thousand-fifteenth. She's previously sung Aida at WA National Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Australia, and the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy. Other performances comprise Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore and Margherita in a concert version of Boito's Mefistofele at Opera Australia; Desdemona in Verdi's Otello at WA National Opera, English National Opera, the National Opera de Bordeaux, Oper Frankfurt, and the Teatro La Fenice; Odabella in Verdi's Attila at the Teatro Petruzzelli; the title role of Rossini's Semiramide at the National Opera de Bordeaux; the soprano solo in Verdi's Requiem at San Francisco Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra; Anna Erisso in Rossini's Maometto II at the Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, and WA Concert Opera; and the title role of Puccini's Tosca at the Northern Lights Music Festival and Pittsburgh Opera.