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 caused quite a stir when she sang the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at the Volksoper in Vienna, a role she sang in a new production in Frankfurt during her first season, which was followed by 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!). During the 2025/26 season she adds 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. Last season she enjoyed a triumph with the title role in Reimann's Melusine and sang Aksinja in Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and a 15 Year-old in new production of Berg's Lulu. The previous season she enjoyed great success with 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).