The Moscow-born soprano Anna Nekhames combines expressiveness and virtuosity with an impressive stage presence. As an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt, she celebrated great success in the 2024/25 season in the title role of Reimann's Melusine, for which she received enthusiastic reviews and was named “Young Artist of the Year” by Opernwelt.

In the 2026/27 season, Anna Nekhames will again appear in numerous productions at Oper Frankfurt. In Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, she will take on the role of Oscar under the musical direction of Thomas Guggeis. Furthermore, she will appear as Ninetta in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges , as Woglinde in Wagner's Das Rheingold , and as a young woman in the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Battaglia – The Women of Palermo .

Highlights of past seasons include Xenia (Boris Godunov), Frasquita (Carmen), Sophie (Werther), the title role in Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini, and the Niece (Peter Grimes) at the Oper Frankfurt as well as her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as Sasha/Chastity in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Orlando, and her appearance as Aksinja in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the Fifteen-Year-Old in Berg's Lulu and Polya in Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress
Anna Nekhames received her first musical training in the children's choir of the Bolshoi Theatre. She initially studied singing at the Galina Vishnevskaya Music Theatre College. This was followed by vocal studies at the renowned Gnessin Conservatory in Moscow and a master's degree in solo singing, Lied and oratorio at the MUK (Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna).
She received further artistic inspiration from masterclasses with Michael Kraus, Linda Watson, Daniela Fally, Adrian Eröd, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Graham Johnson, Helmut Deutsch, and Brigitte Fassbaender.
She subsequently became a member of the Vienna State Opera's Opera studio, where she attracted attention in roles such as the Confidante (Elektra), the Flower Maiden (Parsifal), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Juliette (Die tote Stadt), the Milliner (Der Rosenkavalier), and the Morning Bird in the Austrian premiere of Leyla and Medjnun (Detlev Glanert). Further engagements took Anna Nekhames to, among other venues, the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, where she debuted in the title role of Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini . Subsequently, she was engaged by Brigitte Fassbaender for her Ring cycle production as the Woodbird and Woglinde.
Her repertoire includes roles such as the Queen of the Night, which she has performed at Oper Frankfurt, the Vienna Volksoper and at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, as well as Musetta (La Bohème), Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), Giannetta (L'elisir d'amore), Gilda (Rigoletto), Schopfhenne/Die Gastwirtin (Das schlaue Füchslein), Mizi (Der ferne Klang), Beauté (Guercœur), the Italian Singer (Capriccio), Fiakermilli (Arabella), Leonore (Doktor und Apotheker) and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto).
As a concert singer, she made her debut at the Rheingau Musik Festival with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under the baton of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana .
Anna Nekhames is the winner of numerous competitions, including the 11th International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition and the 3rd International Haydn Competition.
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