Anna El-Khashem, soprano, studied in St. Petersburg. She won, among others, the 1st prize at the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Neue Stimmen 2019” singing competition, the Sergei Leiferkus Singing Competition, and in 2018, the 1st prize at the Mozart Competition at the Mozarteum Salzburg. She was also named Young Artist of the Year 2018 by the magazine Opernwelt. Performances have taken her to venues including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Great Concert Hall of the State Conservatory in Moscow. Starting with the 2016/17 season, she was a member of the Opera Studio at the Bavarian State Opera, where she sang roles such as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), the Sandman (Hänsel und Gretel), and Esmeralda (The Bartered Bride). With the 2019/20 season, she joined the ensemble in Wiesbaden, where she sang, among others, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. Most recently, she also appeared there as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, as Woglinde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, as Sophie in the new production of Werther, and as Marzelline in Fidelio. She has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Ivor Bolton, Bertrand de Billy, and Simone Young. In the 2021/22 season, she made her house and role debut at the Paris Opera as Servilia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, and also sang Susanna in the new production of Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni, also in Paris. At Zurich Opera House, she has already appeared in a La Scintilla concert under Riccardo Minasi and performed the roles of Gemmira in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo and Clarine/Thalie in Rameau’s Platée.