ANNIE ROSEN

Mezzo-soprano  Annie Rosen's performances have been acclaimed as “fearless,” “intensely present,” and “soul-crushingly vulnerable.” Last season she made her role and company debut as Adalgisa in Norma with Utah Opera, sang her first Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Central City Opera, and debuted with Chicago Opera Theater in Iolanta and The Scarlet Ibis. The 2019-2020 season includes her debut live and in HD with The Metropolitan Opera as Ankhesenpaaten in Akhnaten, appearing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a reprise of her Adalgisa in Norma in her Calgary Opera debut, and a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Wellgunde in her first complete  Ring cycle. 

An aficionado of new and experimental work, Ms. Rosen joined the Lyric Opera of Kansas City's Explorations series in 2019 to present a fully staged version of Sarah Kirkland Snider's one-woman song cycle Penelope. Previous fringe work has included a collaboration with L.A.-based director Annie Saunders and the International Contemporary Ensemble to co-create The Wreck, a site-specific devised opera based on the poetry of Anne Sexton and the compositions of Mariana Sadovska; which Opera News hailed as “a flat-out triumph for its two fearless performers."

​In 2016, Rosen began a two-year apprenticeship at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Opera Center where she jumped in as Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande in rehearsal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen; she then "knocked the ball out of the park" (Chicago Classical Review) in her Lyric Opera debut as Tisbe in La Cenerentola, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.