Anna Dennis

Described by the Times as a “delectable soprano and a serene, ever-sentient presence”, Anna Dennis enjoys a wide-ranging performing repertoire from opera to the concert stage and from baroque music to premiering new works. Notable performances have included Britten’s War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, Thomas Adès’ Life Story at the Lincoln Centre, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Sydney Opera House. BBC Proms appearances include performances with the CBSO, the BBCSO, the Britten Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Recent operatic roles have included Florinda/Handel’s Rodrigo (Göttingen Händel Festspiele), Lucy Schmeeler & Claire/Bernstein’s On The Town (Hyogo Performing Arts, Japan), Paride/Gluck’s Paride ed Elena (Nuremberg Opera House), Katherine Dee/Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee (English National Opera), Emira/Handel’s Siroe (Göttingen Händel Festspiele), Bersi/Andrea Chenier (Opera North), Ilia/Mozart’s Idomeneo (Birmingham Opera Company), and Strawberry Seller & Strolling Player/Britten’s Death in Venice (La Scala, Milan). Anna has created roles in new operas by Francisco Coll, Jonathan Dove, Edward Rushton, Will Tuckett and Yannis Kyriakides.

Recent concert performances have included contemporary music work for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Scottish Chamber Orchestra concerts with Peter Whelan and with Maxim Emelyanychev, all three Monteverdi operas with John Eliot Gardiner, Schoenberg’s 2nd String Quartet (Auditorio de Tenerife), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Masaaki Suzuki, and Bach Easter Oratorio with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jonathan Cohen, Handel’s Il Trionfo di Dori and Blow’s Venus and Adonis in Moscow, Pergolesi Stabat Mater with Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Haydn Schöpfung with Düsseldorf Symphoniker and Adam Fischer, and with the Early Opera Company conducted by Christian Curnyn at Wigmore Hall.