This upcoming season Anna will perform at the Royal Opera House in the role of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, followed by her house and role debut at the English National Opera as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Seviglia. She will also make her staging debut as Cleopatra in Handel’s Guilio Cesare. In concert Anna will perform with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christian Curnyn, and appear at the Winter Chamber Music Festival with the Fidelio Trio in Dublin.
Last season Anna debuted as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte with the Irish National Opera. Her concert work included Carmina Burana with NSO Ireland, Messiah with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, her concert debut with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on a tour of B Minor Mass, her debut with the CBSO for New Years Galas and chamber music festivals in Ireland.
Along with her love of opera, Anna’s concert career has seen her travel world wide, and most recently she has given time to developing her chamber music and recital programmes. Last season she appeared at West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Boyne Music Festival, Westport Festival of Chamber Music and collaborated with Julius Drake on a recital based on Irish Poetry. Next season she will return to West Cork Chamber Music festival to join with Julius again and her collaborations will continue later in the year with fellow Irish pianist Fiachra Garvey.
As a concert performer throughout Europe and the USA, Anna’s repertoire encompasses a vast range of sacred and secular works including Handel’s great oratorios, along with Mahler, Haydn, Mozart and early Baroque. She has appeared at the London Handel, Göttingen Handel, Lausanne Bach, Brighton Early Music and Belfast festivals, the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall. She has worked with the Vienna Philharmonic, Hallé, RTÉ NSO, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Halle, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster and Minnesota orchestras and Houston, Charlotte and Seattle symphonies, among others. Recent season highlights, Mozart Concert Arias with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Bicket; and a concert tour performing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre. Other conductors she has worked with include Sir William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Ottavio Dantone, Ivor Bolton, Sir Colin Davis, Yannick Nézet, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Antonio Pappano.
Anna Devin’s recordings include La Bohemia for Signum with Irish Nationa Opera, Arminio and Faramondo for Accent from the International Händel Festspiele Gottingen; Mozart in London, Il re Pastore and Mitridate, Re di Ponto with Classical Opera for Signum Classics; and ‘Arias for Benucci’ with Arcangelo for Hyperion.
In addition to her work on stage, Ms Devin is proud to be an Ambassador for the British Dyslexia Association.
