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Anita Monserrat

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About Anita

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.

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Kate Robson

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Selected Repertoire

Bizet

Carmen (Mercédès)

Handel

Semele (Ino)   •   Giulio Cesare (Sesto)

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel)

Mascagni

Cavalleria Rusticana (Lola)

Monteverdi

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Fortuna)

Mozart

Don Giovanni (Zerlina)

Mozart

Die Zauberflöte (Zweite Dame)

Mozart

Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) - in preparation

Offenbach

Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nicklausse)

Poulenc

La Voix Humaine (Elle)

Puccini

Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton)

Purcell

Dido and Aeneas (Dido) - in preparation

Rossini

La Cenerentola (Angelina) - in preparation

Tchaikovsky

Iolanta (Laura)

Askonas Holt welcomes mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat

/01 October 2024

Askonas Holt is pleased to welcome Anita Monserrat to the roster for worldwide general management.

The 2024/25 season sees the British mezzo-soprano join the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio, singing the role of Kate Pinkerton alongside Askonas Holt tenor Joshua Guerrero in Madama Butterfly directed by Anthony Minghella.

In concert, Anita has performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus as a soloist at last year’s Christmas in Vienna concert, and with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 conducted by Hans Graf. Other concert highlights include Bach’s St John Passion at London’s Barbican Centre with the 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 won First Prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars Competition, as well as a semi-finalist at the 2023 Operalia Competition, and a finalist at both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 Handel Singing Competition. She was a member of the Young Singer’s Project at last year’s Salzburger Festspiele and also took part in the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie.

She is a graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Cambridge.

Anita will be managed at Askonas Holt by Fabiana Dalpiaz and Kate Robson.

WATCH: Anita sings ‘Sussurrate, onde vezzose’ from Handel's Amadigi with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

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