Praised as having a “rich,” and “beautifully emotional,” sound, Anna Kelly is an up-and-coming mezzo who was recently named a National Semi-finalist in the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont competition.

 

In the spring of 2022, Ms. Kelly made her role debut as Ruggiero in Yale Opera Studio’s Alcina, and this summer joined the Music Academy of the West in their July production of Eugene Onegin. No stranger to the concert stage, Ms. Kelly was also featured as a soloist with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and Washington Opera Society this year.

 

In 2022-2023, Ms. Kelly will join Palm Beach Opera as an Apprentice Artist, where she will cover the roles of Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, Meg Page in Falstaff, and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. This fall, Ms. Kelly will also return to Washington Opera Society and the Mid-Atlantic Symphony as a soloist.

 

Ms. Kelly has trained with esteemed young artist programs such as the the HGO Young Artists’ Vocal Academy, and holds a BM in Vocal Performance from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in Washington DC (2019), and recently earned her MM from the prestigious Yale School of Music (2022).