ANNA LEESE - SOPRANO
New Zealand Soprano Anna Leese completed a Batchelor of Music degree with First Class Honours at the University of Otago and was recipient of an impressive number of awards and prizes. Since moving to London she has won the 2004 Royal Overseas League Vocal competition (and was named best overseas competitor in the same competition) and won the 2005 Richard Tauber Prize. In November 2002 she completed a graduate diploma at the Royal College of Music, before joining the Benjamin Britten International Opera School.
Recent concert engagements include the London Mozart Players under Andrew Parrot and her debut at the 2006 BBC Proms in an all-Mozart programme with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington. She recorded Elgar's The Apostles in Canterbury Cathedral with the Canterbury Choral Society and a debut recital disc on the EMI label with Graham Johnson.
With the BBIOS she has sung Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and Mahler's second symphony with Bernard Haitink. Anna Leese is an Associate Artist of the Classical Opera Company with whom she most recently sang Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. In her native New Zealand she has sung Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo. She made her Covent Garden debut as Tamiri (Il re pastore) returning for both Musetta (La boheme) and Micaela (Carmen).
Engagements include First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Echo (Ariadne) and Musetta for the Royal Opera, a return to the New Zealand Opera and Musetta, in her North American debut, for the Canadian Opera Company.
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