Irish soprano Anna Devin is currently a participant in the Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme at the Royal Opera House 2010-2012. She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio and was a Young Associate Artist at the Opera Theatre Company in Dublin between 2004 and 2007. She continues her vocal development under Janice Chapman.
Since starting at the Royal Opera House Anna has had much success stepping in at the last minute for her debut as Dew Fairy in Hänsel and Gretel in the 2010/11 season. Then starting this season with a bang as she stepped in as Lauretta in Gianni Schicci for the BBC Radio 3 Broadcast, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. This production was part of Il Trittico in which she played Amante/Il Tabarro and Suor Genovieffa/Suor Angelica.
Along with these Anna has also sung Silvia in Haydn's L'isola Disabitata at the Linbury Theatre in October 2010, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, conducted by the world-renowned Sir Colin Davis, Kaetchen/Sophie(cover) Massenet's Werther and 2nd Niece in Peter Grimes, conducted by Andrew Davis. She also understudied Marzelline in Fidelio, Gretel/Sandman/Dewfairy Humperdink’s Hänsel und Gretel and Zerlina Mozart’s Don Giovanni,
Anna has worked with several conductors and directors including Laurence Cummings, William Christie, Rory MacDonald, Jonathan Kent and Neil Bartlett. Her opera roles include Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, The Anne Who Steals (The King Goes Forth to France) and Rezia (Le Recontre impréuve) at Guildhall, roles in The Fairy Queen, Venus (King Arthur) and Governess (The Turn of the Screw) for the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at Aldeburgh, Virtue/Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for the Opera Theatre Company, Ireland, roles in The Fairy Queen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Opéra Comique and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas).
Her festival and recital appearances include the Göttingen Handel, Aix-en-Provence, London Handel, Chelsea Schubert, Brighton Early Music, Würzburg Mozart, London Song and Cork Choral Festivals. Awards include the Maggie Teyte and Miriam Licette Scholarship, finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Award, Stuart Burrows International Voice Award, Singers’ Prize at the Gerald Moore Awards, Audience Prize in the London Handel Singing Competition, Thelma King Award for Young Singers, Great Elm Award and INDEPENDENT OPERA/Guildhall School of Music and Drama Postgraduate Voice Fellowship.
