Biography
Texas tenor Angel Raii Gomez was a 2025 Laffont Competition National Finalist, now in his first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2025–26 season, he covered the Abbé in Andrea Chénier and will make his company debut as the Young Man / Second Aldeano in Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego. Upcoming operatic engagements include Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Wolf Trap Opera, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Charlottesville Opera, and Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Teatro de la Maestranza. Last season, he sang the title roles of Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz and Gounod’s Faust at Academy of Vocal Arts and made his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem. Additional operatic engagements include the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Pluton in Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers at Opera North, as well as several roles during his tenure at Academy of Vocal Arts, including Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Percy in Anna Bolena, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, among others. In addition to his operatic experience, he appeared on the concert stage as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the New Choral Society, both Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and Verdi’s Requiem with Portland Opera. He won first prize in the 2023 Meistersinger Competition at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, first prize in the 2023 Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, and was named a finalist in the 2024 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition. He is an alumnus of the Academy of Vocal Arts Resident Artist Program and pursued a degree in voice from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.