About | Anne Marie Stanley, Mezzo-Soprano

Season Highlights

Metropolitan Opera debut as Lorca (cover) in Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar
Role and House debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at Staatsoper Hannover 2025
Role and house debut as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma with Palm Beach Opera 2024
Role and house debut as Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Opera Philadelphia 2024
Role and house debut as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto with Royal Opera House Japan Tour 2024
In recital with Luke Housner performing works by De Falla, Massenet, Britten, and Berg as part of Opera Philadelphia Festival O23 Series

Career Highlights

2022 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Vocal Competition
1st Prize Winner of the Loren L. Zachary Society in Beverly Hills, California
Role and house debut as the title in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at Snape Maltings and The Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre
Main Stage debut as Third Wood Spirit in Dvořák's Rusalka at The Royal Opera House
Grand Finalist (1 of 12 singers selected) in the 2021 Vincerò World Singing Competition

Biographical Info

Born on November 20, 1991
Raised in Princeton, New Jersey
Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College
Master of Music in Voice Performance from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music
Resident Artist at Academy of Vocal Arts 2019-2022

Anecdotes

Began undergraduate studies as a theatre major with emphasis in Shakespeare plays
Studied Laban movement and notation
Took dance lessons regularly in modern, jazz, with some ballet and tap until beginning of undergraduate studies
Very active and athletic especially in HIIT programs
Favorite podcast is This Jungian Life
Dog mom of a miniature Yorkshire terrier named Rosie

Critical Acclaim

As Lucretia, Anne Marie Stanley owns the stage (she covered Thurza in Glyndebourne’s recent The Wreckers, incidentally); her voice is powerful yet can usher in the most remarkable vulnerability and indeed, emotional pain as the work hurtles towards its tragic conclusion. -Seen and Heard International
Anne Marie Stanley had the sort of deep mezzo voice that sends shivers down the spine in moments of tragedy. -Plays to See
As Lucretia, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley sang with luscious tone and vivid dramatic presence -Opera Today
Stanley fully inhabits the role by taking the audience on a dramatic journey from her initial privileged complacency to a deranged self-loathing -London Unattached
Singing Lucretia, Anne Marie Stanley’s rich mezzo-soprano voice seems to come all the way up from her heart. -Culture Whisper
The story of the Austrian Woman (sung phenomenally by Anne Marie Stanley) was gripping. -Trouw

Anne Marie Stanley