Anna Nekhames

Worldwide representation

The young soprano Anna Nekhames has been an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt since the 2022/23 season, where she will sing Venus in the new production of Le grand macabre under Thomas Guggeis, Fauno (Ascanio in Alba) and the Mother in Fortner's In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplín Belisa in the new season.

At the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, she made her role debut in the title role in Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini, and was immediately invited to sing Waldvogel and Woglinde (Götterdämmerung) in Brigitte Fassbaender's new Ring. Her repertoire includes roles such as Queen of the Night, which she has sung at Oper Frankfurt, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and the Vienna Volksoper, Musetta (La Bohème), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), and Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann).  

Anna Nekhames was a member of the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she has already attracted attention with such roles as Giannetta (Elisir d'amore), Juliette (Die tote Stadt) and the Modist (Der Rosenkavalier). In the Austrian premiere Leyla and Medjnun by Detlev Glanert in Vienna she sang the Morning Bird.

Anna Nekhames sang in the children's choir of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow before she began her vocal studies at the College of Musical Theater Arts "Galina Vishnevskaya". She then studied solo singing at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow, where she has already taken on roles such as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Musetta (La Bohème). Master classes in London, Italy and Vienna complemented her studies.

Anna Nekhames is a prize winner of several competitions. Most recently she won the 11th International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition and the International Haydn Competition.

2023/24

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