"In Ariodante's imperious lament Scherza Infida, she was electrifying!"
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ANNA MP3
LISTEN: Retablo de Navidad V (Coplillas de Belen) by Joaquin Rodrigo. SONY/BMG & BBC Symphony Orchestra
AWARD WINNING MEZZO-SOPRANO ANNA STEPHANY trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio in London. Anna represented England in this year's BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and other highlights this year include Dusapin's To be sung, Ensemble Intercontemporin, Paris. St. Matthew Passion, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concertgebouw. Janacek's Glagolithic Mass (Pierre Boulez/Paris and Ravenna) and Elgar's The Light of Life, Radio Philarmonic Orchestra, The Netherlands. Anna returned to the Proms this summer to sing Persephone/Eurydice in Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Brabbins and her recent operatic roles include Mercedes Carmen, Russian National Orchestra, Moscow. Dorabella for Garsington Opera and Ghost in Birtwistle's The Last Supper.
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Sue Nicholls | sue.nicholls@hazardchase.co.uk
25 City Road, Cambridge CB1 1DP, UK
www.hazardchase.co.uk
ANNA MP3
LISTEN: Retablo de Navidad III (Aire y Donaire) by Joaquin Rodrigo.SONY/BMG & BBC Symphony Orchestra
Full Biography
Anna Stephany was born in the North East of England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio, London. In 2005 she won the Gold Medal Competition at the Guildhall and went on to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award in the same year. Operatic roles include Concepción L'heure espagnole, title role Mignon, Euridice and Speranza Orfeo - Opera North, Proserpina Orfeo - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte Garsington Opera, Mercedes Carmen - Russian National Orchestra, as well as the role of Ghost in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper (Milan and Turin, London Sinfonietta) and Pélérin in L'Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho at the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (Janacek Youth Orchestra).
Regular performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra include her 2007 BBC Proms debut as Wellgunde Götterdämmerung with Donald Runnicles, an album of Rodrigo songs with David Zinman and Martinu's Julliette with Jiri Belohlavek. With the London Symphony Orchestra she has recorded Mozart's Requiem - Sir Colin Davis/LSO Live Label.
From Baroque to Contemporary, Anna has collaborated with Early Opera Company (Tragecomedia at the Spitalfields Festival), the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (St. Matthew Passion, Concertgebouw Amsterdam), the Classical Opera Company (a programme of Handel arias and ensembles at the Wigmore Hall) and Ensemble Intercontemporain (Dusapin's To be Sung, Paris). An accomplished recitalist, she recently performed with Iain Burnside at Chatsworth House and regularly collaborates with Simon Lepper.
Recent highlights include representing England at this year BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Janacek's Glagolithic Mass conducted by Pierre Boulez (Paris and Ravenna), Elgar's The Light of Life (Radio Philarmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden, the Netherlands) and Persephone/Eurydice in Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus (BBC Proms & BBC Symphony Orchestra).
Upcoming engagements include Irene in Händel's Theodora (Gabrieli Consort & Players, Wroclaw, Paris and Madrid), Haydn's Nelson Mass (RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin), Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Garsington Opera), Laurette in Offenbach's La Chanson de Fortunio (Opéra Comique, Paris), Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (ZaterdagMatinee, Concertgebouw Amsterdam), and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence).
Anna Stephany was born in the North East of England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio, London. In 2005 she won the Gold Medal Competition at the Guildhall and went on to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award in the same year. Operatic roles include Concepción L'heure espagnole, title role Mignon, Euridice and Speranza Orfeo - Opera North, Proserpina Orfeo - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte Garsington Opera, Mercedes Carmen - Russian National Orchestra, as well as the role of Ghost in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper (Milan and Turin, London Sinfonietta) and Pélérin in L'Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho at the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (Janacek Youth Orchestra).
Regular performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra include her 2007 BBC Proms debut as Wellgunde Götterdämmerung with Donald Runnicles, an album of Rodrigo songs with David Zinman and Martinu's Julliette with Jiri Belohlavek. With the London Symphony Orchestra she has recorded Mozart's Requiem - Sir Colin Davis/LSO Live Label.
From Baroque to Contemporary, Anna has collaborated with Early Opera Company (Tragecomedia at the Spitalfields Festival), the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (St. Matthew Passion, Concertgebouw Amsterdam), the Classical Opera Company (a programme of Handel arias and ensembles at the Wigmore Hall) and Ensemble Intercontemporain (Dusapin's To be Sung, Paris). An accomplished recitalist, she recently performed with Iain Burnside at Chatsworth House and regularly collaborates with Simon Lepper.
Recent highlights include representing England at this year BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Janacek's Glagolithic Mass conducted by Pierre Boulez (Paris and Ravenna), Elgar's The Light of Life (Radio Philarmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden, the Netherlands) and Persephone/Eurydice in Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus (BBC Proms & BBC Symphony Orchestra).
Upcoming engagements include Irene in Händel's Theodora (Gabrieli Consort & Players, Wroclaw, Paris and Madrid), Haydn's Nelson Mass (RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin), Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Garsington Opera), Laurette in Offenbach's La Chanson de Fortunio (Opéra Comique, Paris), Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (ZaterdagMatinee, Concertgebouw Amsterdam), and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence).
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