Anna Nekhames

Worldwide representation

The young soprano Anna Nekhames is a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble, where she will sing the title role in Aribert Reimann's Melusine in the new season. She can also be seen in roles such as Aksinja (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) and the fifteen-year-old (Lulu). In Giessen she will make a guest appearance as Fiakermilli (Arabella).

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 already sung at the Frankfurt Opera, the Wiesbaden State Theatre and the Vienna Volksoper, Musetta (La Bohème), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor) and Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann).  She caused a sensation in particular as Venus (Le grand macabre) in Frankfurt under Thomas Guggeis.

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.

2024/25

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