A Grand Finals Winner of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley has made a series of impressive debuts in recent seasons, garnering attention for her “rich, deep and powerful voice and superlative diction”.
Marking a Royal Ballet & Opera debut as Third Nymph in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, Stanley went on to join the company on tour to Japan, singing Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, and returned to Covent Garden last season to reprise the role under the musical direction of Sir Mark Elder. More recently, she returned to both The Metropolitan Opera and Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden, and joined the cast of Puccini’s Il trittico with National Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Gianandrea Noseda. In previous seasons, Stanley made her debut as Octavian in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Staatsoper Hannover in a new production by Christian Stückl, conducted by Stephan Zilias, and appeared in Pauline Bayle’s new production of Battistelli’s 7 minuti at Opéra de Lyon conducted by Miguel Pérez Iñesta.