Hailed as “simply wonderful” by the New York Times and “remarkable” by The Times of London, British-German Mezzo-Soprano Anna Harvey has received rapturous acclaim for her performances around the world. The winner of the Paris Opera Competition, the London Bach Singers Prize and the Oratorio and Audience Prizes at the International Vocal Competition s’ Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, Anna was born in Sheffield, UK, and studied at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music.
 

Since 2018, Anna has been a resident soloist at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she has performed many of the most important mezzo soprano roles, including Octavian, Hänsel, Dido, Carmen, Giulio Cesare, L’Enfant, Fricka, Brigitta, Mary, Siegrune, Floßhilde, Orlofsky, Suzuki, Meg Page, Fenena,

Polina, Olga, Varvara and Ježibaba. 

 

Guest engagements have taken her across the globe, including to the Palais Garnier in Paris, Dutch National Opera and Nederlandse Reisopera in Amsterdam, Lincoln Center in New York, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Orchestre de Picardie in Paris and Amiens, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Actus Humanus Festival in Poland, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Xi’an Symphony Hall in China, the Köln, Essen, Dortmund, Weimar and Chemnitz opera houses in Germany, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (where she was Associate Artist in 2017), and the Wigmore, Barbican, Royal Festival and Royal Albert Halls in London. A particular career highlight was singing as a soloist at the Last Night of the BBC Proms in 2016.  

 

This season Anna makes a number of significant debuts, including Hänsel at Ópera de Oviedo, Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Erda in the Singapore premiere of Siegfried, and Carmen, Giulio Cesare and Fricka (Die Walküre) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

With particular interests in German romantic opera and oratorio, Anna has performed with esteemed conductors including Carlo Rizzi, Axel Kober, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ádám Fischer, Antonino Fogliani, Sakari Oramo, Christoph Gedschold, Azim Karimov, Marie Jacquot, Finnegan Downie-Dear, Felix Bender, Harry Ogg, Katharina Müllner, Vitali Alekseenok, Péter Halász, Sir Roger Norrington, Harry Bicket, Paul McCreesh, Jane Glover, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Jonathan Cohen, Daniel Hope, Maxim Emelyanychev and Masaaki Suzuki.

 

Anna has worked on new productions with respected opera directors including Sir Graham Vick, Tatjana Gürbaca, Paul Curran, Lindy Hume, Daniel Kramer, Michael Thalheimer, Olivia Fuchs, Ted Huffman, Elisabeth Stöppler, Vasily Barkhatov, Ilaria Lanzino, Philipp Westerbarkei, Julia Langeder, Kobie van Rensburg and Tobias Kratzer.

Collaborations on the concert platform include those with ensembles such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hallé, Three Choirs Festival, The English Concert, Gabrieli Consort, Arcangelo, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Gulbenkian, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Dortmunder Philharmoniker and Duisburger Philharmoniker, in repertoire including Purcell, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Lili Boulanger.

Anna’s current discography includes Floßhilde Das Rheingold / Götterdämmerung with the Duisburger Philharmoniker under Axel Kober, Haydn Nelson Mass / Paukenmesse with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Hilary Davan Wetton, Charpentier Litanies de la Vierge with Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen for Hyperion Records, and a recital disc of Warlock and Howe songs with pianist Mark Austin on Rubicon Classics.​​​​​​