Anna Devin Soprano
Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Vocal Scholarship & Voice Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Irish soprano Anna Devin studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio. She was a Young Associate Artist at the Opera Theatre Company in Dublin between 2004 and 2007 and she is currently a participant in the Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme at the Royal Opera House 2010-2012.
Awards include the Maggie Teyte and Miriam Licette Scholarship, finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Award, Stuart Burrows International Voice Award, Singers’ Prize at the Gerald Moore Awards, Audience Prize in the London Handel Singing Competition, Thelma King Award for Young Singers and Great Elm Award. Anna has worked with several conductors and directors including Laurence Cummings, William Christie, Sir Colin Davis, Rory MacDonald, Jonathan Kent and Neil Bartlett.
Student roles include Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, The Anne Who Steals (The King Goes Forth to France) and Rezia (Le Recontre impréuve) at Guildhall, roles in The Fairy Queen, Venus (King Arthur) and Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at Aldeburgh. Other engagements include Virtue/Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for the Opera Theatre Company, Ireland, roles in The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne and the Opéra Comique and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) for Aestas Musica. In Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel she sang the Dew Fairy and covered the roles of Gretel and Sandman at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Her festival and recital appearances include the Göttingen Handel, Aix-en-Provence, London Handel, Chelsea Schubert, Brighton Early Music, Würzburg Mozart, London Song and Cork Choral Festivals.
This season her roles at the Royal Opera House include Papagena in Die Zauberflote, Kaetchen in Massenet's Werther, Marzelline in Fidelio (cover) and 2nd Niece in Peter Grimes. She will also feature in a performance of the Messiah with Highgate Choral Society, as Norina in Don Pasquale at the Linbury Theatre and Bianca in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Jette Parker Young Artist Scenes at the Royal Opera House.
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