Anna Grevelius | mezzo-soprano
Biography:
Swedish mezzo-soprano Anna Grevelius studied at the GSMD in London before joining the Benjamin Britten International Opera School (Sir Thomas Allen Scholar) and the National Opera Studio. Awards include the 2004 Gerald Moore Award’s Singer’s Prize, 1st prize in the 2006 RCM Lies Askonas Competition and the Prix Gabriel Dussurget, presented at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2010.
Operatic roles include Dorabella / Così fan tutte (Classical Opera Company), Prince Orlovsky / Die Fledermaus, Lucretia / The Rape of Lucretia (both RCM), Onoria in Handel’s Ezio (London Handel Festival), 2nd Witch / Dido and Aeneas, 2nd Lady / Magic Flute (both Aix-en-Provence Festival), Cecilio / Lucio Silla (Classical Opera Company), Proserpina / Orfeo (Drottningholm), Nerone / L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Pitti-Sing / Mikado, Fyodor / Boris Godunov Rosina / The Barber of Seville, Siebel Faust (all ENO), Varvara / Katya Kabanova (ENO, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisbon), Rusalka (Grange Park Opera), Cherubino / Le Nozze di Figaro (Garsington Opera), Juno / Platee (De Nederlandse Opera).
In concert and recital she has worked with Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Joseph Middleton, Bernard Haitink, English Chamber Orchestra, Leon Botstein and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich and the BR Symphony Orchestra Munich, and appeared at the Oxford Lieder Festival, London’s King’s Place, in Cambridge and Santiago di Compostella. She is also featured on Hyperion’s test volume of Mendelssohn songs, with Eugene sti, and on Rene Jacobs’ recording of The Magic tute for Harmonia Mundi.