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Anna Stéphany

Mezzo-soprano

  • Anglo-French mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany has been praised for her stagecraft
    and “a superb, glowing, impassioned” voice. Stéphany was born in the North East of
    England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music, where she was a recipient of
    the Gold Medal, and the National Opera Studio. She represented England at the
    BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and is a Kathleen Ferrier Award winner.

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  • In the 2024-25 season, Stéphany's highlights include Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with the Narodowe Forum Muzyki at the Berlioz Festival La-Côte-Saint-André, Zemlinsky Lieder von Nacht und Traum with the Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Clemens Schuldt and Bach Christmas Oratorio conducted by Gianluca Capuano with Monte Carlo Opera. She also appears at the Klosters Music Festival with the Munich Chamber Orchestra performing Haydn Nelson Mass under the baton of Enrico Onofri. 
     
    Stéphany's recent highlights include her Berlin Staatsoper debut as Idamante in David McVicar’s production of Idomeneo, a return to the Royal Opera House as Hansel Hansel and Gretel conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, and Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for the Semperoper Dresden. In concert she joined the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann for Bruckner Te Deum, RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburger Barockorchester for Haydn Masses, and performed Mendelssohn Elijah with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. She also appeared at the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival for Boulanger Psalm 130, with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder, and for a performance. 
     
    Stéphany was a member of the ensemble at Opernhaus Zürich from 2012-15, where she made her debut as Cherubino in Mozart Le nozze di Figaro. Further roles in Zürich include Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Siebel in Gounod Faust, Nicklausse in Offenbach Les contes d’Hoffmann and Minerva in Monteverdi Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria. Her close relationship with the house continued with guest appearances as Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, a new production of Purcell King Arthur, Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Charlotte Werther.  
     
    One of her most coveted roles is Octavian in Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, which she sang at the Bolshoi Theatre, the Royal Swedish Opera, and with which she made her house debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Most recently, Stéphany has been heard in her role and company debut at the Opéra National de Paris as Le Prince Charmant Cendrillon, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for her company debut at the Semperoper Dresden under the baton of Carlo Rizzi and in a return to the Royal Opera House, Opernhaus Zürich as Idamante Idomeneo, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier and Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel, the Bayersiche Staatsoper as Dorabella Così fan Tutte and in a return to the Glyndebourne Festival for her debut as Sesto in David McVicar’s acclaimed production of Giulio Cesare.  
     
    Further appearances have included the role of Sesto in a live-streamed concert performance of La Clemenza di Tito, recorded with the Opéra de Rouen in collaboration with Alpha Classics, Rosina in Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; Annio in Mozart La clemenza di Tito at the Aix-en-Provence Festival; Handel Theodora with Rias Kammerchor and the title role in Charpentier Médée at Chicago Opera. She made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich stepping in as Annio in La Clemenza di Tito and returned the following summer as La Musica and Speranza in Monteverdi L’Orfeo. She made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, which also formed part of the 2017 BBC Proms.  
     
    On the concert platform Stéphany has appeared with some of the world’s finest orchestras including performances of Messiah alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Rossini Stabat Mater and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Irene Theodora with early music ensemble Arcangelo at the Barbican Centre, in Antwerp, and at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Elijah with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki, a recorded concert performance of Mendelssohn Le Songe d’une nuit d’été with the Orchestra National de France at the Auditorium de Radio France, a tour of Beethoven 9 with the London Symphony Orchestra, Elgar The Dream of Gerontius with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Berlioz Les nuits d’été with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Cesti Orontea with La Nuova Musica at Wigmore Hall, Mozart Requiem with Mozarteum Salzburg, folk songs by Berio with the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra as part of the Festival D'Aix-en-Provence, Elgar Sea Pictures with the Bremer Philharmoniker, St Matthew Passion with the Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers, La damoiselle élue with the Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen, and a programme of Handel in New York, London and Paris with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/William Christie in a tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. She made two appearances at the 2018 BBC Proms season, La damoiselle élue with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder, and performed Le Martyre de St Sebastian with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, L’enfant et les Sortileges with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, L’enfance du Christ, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris for and Berlioz Roméo et Juliette with Orchestra XXI. Stéphany has also given recitals at the Lammermuir Festival and in Zürich, both with pianist Sholto Kynoch.  
     
    Stéphany's debut solo recording Black is the Colour with the Labyrinth Ensemble was released in 2018 on Alpha Classics. Featuring works by Luciano Berio, Falla and Ravel, the disc won critical acclaim. Other recordings include the title role in Handel Serse with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company for Hyperion. Stéphany also appears alongside Juan Diego Florez as Charlotte in a DVD of Opernhaus Zürich’s Werther and as Sesto in Glyndebourne’s recent DVD release of La Clemenza di Tito from the 2017 festival. 

    2024/25 season / 958 words. Not to be altered without permission.

Performances

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Concert repertoire

BACH
Magnificat
Mass in B Minor
St Matthew Passion
St John Passion
Christmas Oratorio​


BEETHOVEN
Missa Solemnis
Symphony No. 9​


BERIO
O King


​BERLIOZ
L’enfance Du Christ
Les Nuits D’été​


BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody
Viola Songs​


BRUCKNER
Requiem​


CHAUSSON
Chanson Perpetuelle​


COPLAND
In the Beginning​


DELIUS
A Mass of Life​


DURUFLE
Requiem​


DUSAPIN
To Be Sung​


DVOŘÁK
Love Songs Op. 83​


ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius
Sea Pictures
The Light of Life
The Music Makers​


HANDEL
Dixit Dominus
La Lucrezia
Messiah
Solomon​


HAYDN
Nelson Mass
Arianna A Naxos
Harmoniemesse​


JANÁČEK
Glagolitic Mass​


MAHLER
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rückert Lieder​


MENDELSSOHN
Elijah​


MOZART
Mass in C Minor
Mass in C
Requiem
Thamos, King of Egypt
Vespers
Concert Aria: Vado ma dove K.583
Concert Aria: Alma grande e nobil core K.578​


PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater​


PROKOFIEV
Alexander Nevsky​


RAVEL
Shéhérazade​


ROSSINI
Petite Messe Solennelle​


SCHUMANN
Frauen Liebe Und Leben
Manfred Op. 115​


VIVALDI
Gloria​


ZEMLINSKY
6 Maeterlinck Lieder

Opera repertoire

BELLINI
I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Romeo)​


BIRTWISTLE
The Last Supper (Ghost)
The Mask Of Orpheus (Euridice Puppet/Persephone)​


BRITTEN
Albert Herring (Nancy)
The Rape Of Lucretia (Lucretia)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia)​


CESTI
Orontea (Orontea)​


CHARPENTIER
Medée (Medée)​


DOVE
The Little Green Swallow (Smeraldina)​


GOUNOD
Faust (Siebel)


HANDEL
Theodora (Irene)
Il Trionfo Del Tempo E Del Disinganno (Piacere)
Ariodante (Ariodante)
Semele (Juno)
Alcina (Ruggiero)
Serse (Serse)​


MARTINU
Juliette (Petit Arabe/1er Homme/Chasseur)​


MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola)


​MONTEVERDI
Il Ritorno D’ulisse In Patria (Minerva)
Orfeo (Euridice/Speranze/Proserpina)​


MOZART
Cosi Fan Tutte (Dorabella)
La Clemenza Di Tito (Sesto/Annio)
Idomeneo (Idamante)
Le Nozze Di Figaro (Cherubino)​


OFFENBACH
La Chanson de Fortunio (Laurette/Marie)
Les Contes D’hoffmann (Nicklausse)​


PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (Dido)​


RAVEL
L’heure Espagnole (Concepcion)​


ROSSINI
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Rosina)
La Cenerentola (Cenerentola)                 
La Donna Del Lago (Elena)​


SAARIAHO
L’amour De Loin (Pelerin)​


STRAUSS
Die Fledermaus (Orlofsky)​


R. STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)​


THOMAS
Mignon (Mignon)


​WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (Wellgunde)


​WEIR
The Vanishing Bridegroom (Daughter)

"Anna Stéphany’s youthful, plush-voiced scamp of a Cherubino stood out from the crowd"

Hugh Canning, Operalogue , July 2023

"Anna Stéphany dispatches Sesto two arias with velvety tone and swaggering technical bravura – the celebrated Parto, parto with clarinet obbligato is the highlight of her outstanding performance"

Hugh Canning, Operalogue , November 2022

Intermusica represents Anna Stéphany worldwide

Camilla Wehmeyer
Associate Director, Vocal & Opera

cwehmeyer@intermusica.com

Mary Donald
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera

mdonald@intermusica.com

All artists

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau