British-Hungarian soprano Anna Cavaliero is a member of the fest ensemble of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater. In the 2024/5 season her roles include Zerlina (Mozart/Don Giovanni), Frasquita (Bizet/Carmen), Hanako (Hosokawa/Hanjo), Belinda (Purcell/Dido and Aeneas) and Valencienne (Lehár/Die Lustige Witwe). She was formerly in Opera Fuoco’s Atelier Lyrique under David Stern in Paris, and the opera studio of the Opéra de Lyon. Further artist schemes have included City Music Foundation, Handel House Talent, Opera Prelude, Britten Pears and Samling.

 

In 2024, Anna made her debut at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre as Mme DuVal in Giant by Sarah Angliss, and she returned to the Royal Opera House to perform extracts of Die Zauberflöte as Pamina in a main stage schools performance conducted by Richard Hetherington.

 

Further operatic roles have included Governess (Britten/The Turn of the Screw) for Deborah Warner’s opera season at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio; Susanna (Mozart/Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Festival Les Étoiles du Classique; Grace (Samantha Fernando/glass human) Glyndebourne on Tour; Atalanta (Handel/Serse) at Opera Holland Park; Soliste (Blacher/Romeo and Juliet) at Opéra de Lyon​; Musetta (Puccini/La Bohème) at the Festival de la Grange aux Pianos; Ninfa and cover La Musica (Monteverdi/Orfeo) at Garsington Opera; Die Prinzessin (Maxwell-Davies/The Hogboon) at Philharmonie de Luxembourg; Zerlina (Mozart/Don Giovanni), Belinda (Purcell/ Dido and Aeneas) and Fairy (Purcell/The Fairy Queen) at Waterperry Opera Festival; Fortuna/ Damigella/ Venere (Monteverdi/ L’incoronazione di Poppea), and cover Euridice (Gluck/Orfeo ed Euridice) at Longborough Festival Opera; Galatea (Handel/Acis and Galatea, serenata in tre parti) at Snape Maltings; Barbarina (Mozart/Le Nozze di Figaro) at Théâtre Blossac; Mab/ Adelaide (Dove/The Enchanted Pig) at Jacksons Lane Theatre.

 

Anna and pianist Sebastian Issler were awarded the Jean Meikle Duo Prize in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition 2022. She also performs regularly in recital with Sholto Kynoch, including at the Oxford International Song Festival, Leicester International Music Festival, and LiedFest Berlin-Oxford. Further chamber music collaborators include The Brook Street Band, Sounds Baroque, Fuoco Obbligato, The London Mozart Players, The Temple Players, The Echéa Quartet, and The Academy of Ancient Music. 2024 saw the release of a song disc, ‘Songs of Faust’ for Champs Hill Records, and Anna also appears on John Weldon’s ‘The Judgement of Paris’ with the Academy of Ancient Music, released in 2025. Anna holds degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge and The Royal College of Music, and a Postgradualerlehrgang Gesang from the Mozarteum Universität Salzburg, where she studied with Barbara Bonney. ​​