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Anna Stéphany is a graduate of King's College London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.

Amongst her many awards are the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2005 and the GSMD Gold Medal. 

 

Anna's operatic roles include Proserpina (Orfeo) for the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Euridice and Speranza (Orfeo) for Opera North, Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) and Juno (Semele) for British Youth Opera, Smeraldina (The Little Green Swallow), Concepçion (L'heure espagnole), the title role in Mignon by A Thomas and Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro) at the Guildhall. Opera scenes have included Romeo (Capuleti e i Montecchi), Juno (Semele), Nancy (Albert Herring), Kate (Owen Wingrave), Sifare (Mitridate) and Spring (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden). Anna sang with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2002 and 2003. 

Anna has appeared with numerous choral societies including The Bach Choir, Holst Singers, Highgate Choral Society and The Philharmonia Chorus.

 

In 2007 she made her BBC Proms debut, singing Wellgunde in the acclaimed performance of Wagner's Götterdammerung. She also performed the Mozart Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis' as part of his 80th birthday celebrations at the Barbican and Carnegie Hall. Other recent engagements have included performances of the Mozart Requiem with both Academy of St Martin in the Fields in the Barbican's Mostly Mozart Festival and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Mass with Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, a concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a recital in Oxford with Roger Vignoles.

 

She has appeared in master-classes with Graham Johnson, Emma Kirkby, David Willcocks and Malcolm Martineau and has given recitals as part of the New London Orchestra Recital series and the Oxford Lieder Festival, both with pianist Jonathan Beatty.

Future engagements include concerts with the English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Halle, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and in 2008 she will sing Dorabella for Garsington Opera.