Anna Christy (born July 26, 1976, Los Angeles) [1] is an American soprano opera singer. [2] She studied at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and made her debut in 2000 at New York City Opera as Papagena. [3]
Christy sings a variety of lyric roles, such as Susanna, Papagena and Cleopatra, but especially coloratura roles such as Cunegonde in Candide and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera . She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2004/5 season, and has sung with the Santa Fe Opera in Bright Sheng's Madame Mao , [3] Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, [4] L'Opéra National de Paris, and the Royal Opera House, London. [5] She has also performed Bianca in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero with the Washington Concert Opera. [6]
In February 2010 she reprised her original 2008 interpretation [7] of the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor for English National Opera. [8]