American mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, graduated from Westminster Choir College with her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with her Master of Music in Voice Performance. Anne Marie recently completed her time as a Resident Artist with The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she sang the role of Léonor in Donizetti’s La favorite, Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and performed works by Korngold, Massenet, Bernstein, and Handel in their annual recitals. Before attending AVA, she made her Carnegie Hall debut performing as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C Major with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and was a Vocal Fellow at Music Academy of the West. She has also participated as a Studio Artist with Wolf Trap Opera and was a two-year apprentice singer with the Santa Fe Opera. Anne Marie also recently covered the role of Thurza in Dame Ethyl Smyth’s The Wreckers with Glyndebourne Festival Opera located in East Sussex, England. Anne Marie was recently named a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition where she received the Faith P. Geier award. She received First Prize in the AVA Giulio Giargiari Bel Canto Vocal Competition and was selected as a Grand Finalist in the Vincero World Singing Competition held in Naples, Italy. Anne Marie won First Prize in the Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing Vocal Competition, The Franco-American Grand Concours Vocal Competition, and the Albert M. Green Philadelphia Orchestra Vocal Competition. www.annemariestanleymezzo.com.
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