A Grand Finals Winner of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley has made a series of impressive debuts in recent seasons, garnering attention for her “rich, deep, and powerful voice and superlative diction”. Marking a Royal Ballet & Opera debut as Third Nymph in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, Stanley recently joined the company on tour to Japan, singing Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano and returns to Covent Garden in the 2025/26 season to reprise the role under the musical direction of Sir Mark Elder.
Most recently Stanley made her debut as Octavian in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Staatsoper Hannover in a new production by Christian Stückl, conducted by Stephan Zilias, as well as appearing in Pauline Bayle’s new production of Battistelli’s 7 Minuti at Opéra de Lyon conducted by Miguel Pérez Iñesta. Upcoming highlights include returns to both The Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden.