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.