Anna Nekhames
soprano
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The soprano Anna Nekhames, who comes from Moscow, left the Vienna State Opera's Opera Studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23. She enjoyed a triumph in 2025 with the title role in Reimann's Melusine, one of the roles for which she was voted »Up and Coming Singer of the Year« 2025 by Opernwelt magazine. During the 2026/27 season she sings her first Oscars and Ninettas in new productions of Un ballo in maschera and Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Woglinde in Das Rheingold and a Young Woman, Letizia's Alter Ego in the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Battaglia - The Women of Palermo, commissioned by Oper Frankfurt. Last season she added four roles to her repertoire: Xenia in a new production of Boris Godunov and a Niece, Frasquita and Sophie in revivals of Peter Grimes, Carmen and Werther. These were preceded by Aksinja in Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and a 15 Year-old in new production of Berg's Lulu. Other roles for the company included the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, the title role in Mercandate's Francesca da Rimini , which she sang when it first opened at the Tirol Festival in Erl, where she also enjoyed great success as the Forest Bird and Woglinde in a new Ring, and Mizi in Schreker's Elusive Sound (get the CD!), Venus / Head of the Gepopo, Fauno & Belisa's Mother in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Mozart's Ascanio in Alba & Fortner's Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden. She was the Early Bird in the first performances in Austria of Detlev Glanert's Leyla und Medjnun in Vienna. Roles at the Vienna State Opera included Juliette (Korngold's The Dead City), Mascha and Chloe (Pique Dame), 2nd Flowermaiden (Parsifal), Konstanze (Entführung ins Zauberreich) and a Couturier(Der Rosenkavalier). She started her career in the children's chorus at the Bolschoi in Moscow before studying with Liudmila Lazatschik-Tratzewskaja at the Galina Wischnevskaja College for Music and Theatre and Svetlana Gorenkova at the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow, where roles included Musetta (La Bohème), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor). In 2018 she joined the city of Vienna's Music and the Arts private university for her masters, where she studied with KS Elena Filipova and KS Birgid Steinberger. Anna Nekhames has won many prizes, including the 2019 International Hilde Zadek Competition and 2021 International Haydn Competition. Her repertoire includes Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore), Voce dal cielo (Don Carlo), Gilda (Rigoletto), Xenia (Boris Godunow), Adele (Die Fledermaus), 1st Dryad (Rusalka), An Italian Singer (Capriccio) and Fiakermilli (Arabella).