Anna Dennis

The English soprano Anna Dennis studied with Noelle Barker at London’s Royal Academy of Music and established a repertoire spanning from the early Baroque to the present day. This breadth has led her to collaborate with ensembles of widely differing aesthetic orientations, from period-instrument groups such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Baroque Soloists, the Academy of Ancient Music, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Les Violons du Roy to modern symphony orchestras and specialist contemporary ensembles including the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Her operatic engagements have taken her to the Gluck Festival in Nuremberg, the Göttingen Handel Festival, the Drottningholm Court Theatre, English National Opera, and Opera North in Leeds. At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she took part in Katie Mitchell’s cantata project New Dark Age, performing works by Missy Mazzoli, Anna Meredith, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. In 2017 Sir John Eliot Gardiner engaged her for the Monteverdi trilogy marking the 350th anniversary of the composer’s birth, where she appeared in L’Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea. At the Aldeburgh Festival, she created the title role in the world premiere of Tom Coult’s Violet. She maintains a close artistic collaboration with Thomas Adès, performing his Life Story at New York’s Lincoln Center and appearing as soprano soloist in both the premiere of the expanded version of America: A Prophecy with the New York Philharmonic and its U.K. premiere with the Hallé Orchestra. In the 2025-26 season, she sang the title role in Handel’s Susanna at Opera North, gave a Mozart program at Wigmore Hall, presented a new orchestral song cycle by Elena Langer, and performed Poulenc’s Gloria with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Anna Dennis received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer Award in 2023.

March 2026