Anita Monserrat

British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat won First Prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars Competition, Second Prize at Neue Stimmen 2024, and was a semi-finalist at the 30th edition of Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition. In the UK, she was a finalist in both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 Handel Singing Competition. She was a member of the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project in 2023 and participated in the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie.

Having completed two seasons with the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio as the Hildegard Zadek Scholarship holder, her recent operatic appearances include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Oper Köln, Mercédès in Carmen, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Laura in Iolanta at the Wiener Staatsoper.

Concert highlights include appearances as a soloist at Christmas in Vienna at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Hans Graf, Bach's St John Passion at London's Barbican Centre with Britten Sinfonia and with Philippe Herreweghe, Handel's Messiah with Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Festival, Vivaldi's Gloria with the Academy of Ancient Music, the inaugural Wiener Staatsoper Opern Air Gala, the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk with Stefan Gottfried and Concentus Musicus Wien, Handel's Messiah at the Wiener Musikverein, and a gala concert at Carnegie Hall.

Upcoming engagements include Mercédès in Carmen at the Salzburg Festival, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Pisa and Livorno, Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, and Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola with Boston Youth Opera.