Described by The Times as a ‘delectable soprano and a serene, ever-sentient presence’, Anna Dennis performs a repertoire ranging from the opera house to the concert hall and from baroque music to the première of new works. She has notably performed Britten’s War Requiem at the Berliner Philharmonie, Thomas Adès’s Life Story at Lincoln Center, New York, Orff’s Carmina Burana in Lisbon with the Orquestra Gulbenkian, and Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium at the Sydney Opera House. She has appeared at the BBC Proms with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, among others. On the operatic stage she has recently sung the title role in Tom Coult’s Violet with the London Sinfonietta in collaboration with Britten Pears Arts, Florinda (Rodrigo) and Emira (Siroe) at the Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen, Lucy Schmeeler and Claire (Bernstein’s On the Town) at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan, Paride (Gluck’s Paride ed Elena) at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Katherine Dee (Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee) at English National Opera, Bersi (Andrea Chénier) at Opera North, Ilia (Idomeneo) at Birmingham Opera Company, and Strawberry Seller and Strolling Player (Death in Venice) at Teatro alla Scala, Milan. She has additionally created roles in new operas by Francisco Coll, Jonathan Dove, Yannis Kyriakides, Edward Rushton, and Will Tuckett. On the concert platform she has worked with orchestras such as the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Early Opera Company, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, and Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, as well as conductors of the calibre of Jonathan Cohen, Christian Curnyn, Maxim Emelyanychev, Adam Fischer, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki, and Peter Whelan. Anna Dennis is a busy recording artist with a substantial discography to her name