Anna Dennis – Soprano
Wednesday 3 September 2025
“…a delectable soprano and a serene, ever-sentient presence.” The Times
Anna Dennis studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was the recipient of the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer award. She has appeared with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St Luke’s, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Orquestra Gulbenkian, les Violons du Roy, Britten Sinfonia, Akademie Alte Musik Berlin, and Sinfonietta Riga. She has sung Britten’s War Requiem (Berlin Philharmonie), Thomas Adès’s Life Story accompanied by the composer (Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival), Boulez’s Pli Selon Pli (BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican), J.S. Bach’s Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut with Kristian Bezuidenhout, Haydn’s The Seasons (Düsseldorf Symphony and Adam Fischer), and Handel’s Orlando (Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings).
Dennis has appeared in operas ranging from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen to Katie Mitchell’s New Dark Age at companies including Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Stockholm’s Drottningholms Slottsteater, Göttingen Handel Festspiel, and Birmingham Opera Company), and she sang in the three Monteverdi operas on John Eliot Gardiner’s world tour of the trilogy. She created the title role of Violet in Tom Coult’s debut opera (at Aldeburgh Festival) and multiple roles in David Pountney’s Purcell pasticcio Masque of Might (Opera North).
Her recordings include Elena Langer’s Landscape with Three People,Kastalsky’s Requiem (a Grammy nominee with Orchestra of St Luke’s), Coult’s debut disc Pieces that Disappear (BBC Philharmonic), and Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula (Early Opera Company).
This season Anna Dennis sings the title role in Handel’s Susanna (Opera North), Mozart concert arias (London’s Wigmore Hall), a new orchestral song cycle by Elena Langer (Royal Scottish National Orchestra), Handel’s Messiah with Phil Zuid, and Poulenc’s Gloria (Scottish Chamber Orchestra).
