Anna Dowsley
Mezzo-soprano
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The Australian mezzo-soprano Anna Dowsley is one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. Last season she sang Olga in a revival of Eugene Onegin at Oper Frankfurt, where she can now be heard as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. She made her debut in the Sydney Opera House in 2014 singing Zaida in Il Turco in Italia, which was followed by roles including Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Siébel (Faust), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Flora (La Traviata), Tebaldo (Don Carlo) and the title role in The Rape of Lucretia. She made her debut in the UK singing Meg Page in Falstaff with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko. She recently sang Dorabella again at Opera Queensland, her first Adalgisas (Norma) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Frau Häusler in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snowflake at the Tirol Winter Festival in Erl. Future plans include the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Opera Queensland. She appeared in concert performances of Pelléas et Mélisande and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven 9 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Anna Dowsley’s concert repertoire includes the Mozart and Verdi requiems, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Petite Messe solenelle, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Bach’s Magnificat and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. During the 2021/22 season she sang Zerlina at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Carmen (role debut) at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg and the title role in Orontea for Pinchgut Opera.