Hailed as “simply wonderful” by the New York Times and “remarkable” by The Times of London, 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, L’Enfant, Suzuki, Polina, Olga, Meg Page, Prinz Orlofsky, Annio, Zweite Dame, Blumenmädchen, Brigitta, Mary, Siegrune and Floßhilde. Guest engagements have taken her across the globe, including to the Palais Garnier in Paris, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Lincoln Center in New York, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Actus Humanus Festival in Poland, Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Xi’an Symphony Hall in China, the Weimar, Chemnitz and Dortmund theatres in Germany, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (where she was Associate Artist in 2017), the Aldeburgh Festival, 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 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Anna makes a number of significant role debuts, including Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Ježibaba (Rusalka) and Nabucco (Fenena). Further afield, recent and future debuts include those with the Nederlandse Reisopera, with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, under the baton of Ádám Fischer at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, with the Orchestre de Picardie at Les Invalides Paris, at the Aalto-Theater Essen as Suzuki and Oper Köln as Fenena, at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund, and as Erda in the Singapore premiere of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

With particular interests in early music, German opera and trouser roles, Anna has performed this repertoire with esteemed conductors including Masaaki Suzuki, Sir Roger Norrington, Harry Bicket, Paul McCreesh, Jane Glover, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Jonathan Cohen, Maxim Emelyanychev, Daniel Hope, Sakari Oramo, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marie Jacquot, Finnegan Downie-Dear, Felix Bender, Harry Ogg, Vitali Alekseenok, Axel Kober, Antonino Fogliani and Carlo Rizzi. 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, Philipp Westerbarkei, 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.

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