Anita Monserrat

British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat recently won 1st prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars competition, 2nd prize at Neue Stimmen 2024 and was a semi-finalist at the 30th edition of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. In the UK, she reached the final of both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 Handel Singing Competition. She was a member of the Young Singer’s Project at the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele and also took part in the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie (IMA).

Anita studied at Cambridge University, The Royal Academy of Music and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Whilst at the MdW, her roles included ‘Hänsel’ in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and the principal role in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine. In concert, Anita has appeared as a soloist at the 2023 Christmas in Vienna at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Graf. Other concert highlights include Bach’s St John Passion at London’s Barbican Centre with Britten Sinfonia, Handel’s Messiah with Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Festival, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Academy of Ancient Music and Bach’s St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe.

Anita joins the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons as the Hildegard Zadek Scholarship holder.