25-year-old Anna Stephens graduated in 2017 from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with first-class honours and a University medal for academic excellence. She studied with Shelli Hulcombe at the Conservatorium, and with Susan Waters at London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama while on a 6-month study exchange. Anna’s has performed the roles of Amor (The Coronation of Poppea), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Emmie (Albert Herring), Princess Laoula (L’Etoile), The Storybook Princess/Le Feu/Le Rossignol (L’Enfant et les Sortileges), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), and Naiad (Ariadne auf Naxos) under the baton of Simone Young in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School. Anna is a regular soloist with Brisbane’s Underground Opera Company, the 7 Sopranos, Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra, QLD Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, and recently won the NSW Fine Music 107.5 Young Virtuoso Award.
Anna made her debut with Opera Australia singing the roles of Pamina, Papagena, and the Queen of the Night in the 2018 Schools Tour production of The Magic Flute. She toured again with Opera Australia’s 2019 Schools Tour production, By The Light of the Moon, and competed as a finalist in the 2019 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship. In 2021 Anna will travel to Berlin to perform the role of Queen of the Night in the Berlin Opera Academy’s production of The Magic Flute, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Program - Anna Stephens and Benjamin Burton
Se tu m’ami - Pergolesi
Lascia, ch’io pianga from Rinaldo - Handel
Myself I Shall Adore from Semele - Handel
No. 4 Notturno from Lyric Pieces Op. 54 - Grieg (piano solo)
Ariettes oubliées - Debussy
Prendi, per me sei libero - Donizetti
Interval
Beau soir - Debussy
Nacht und träume - Schubert
Mondnacht - Schumann
Die Nacht - Strauss
Соловей (The Nightingale) - Alyabyev
The Snow Maiden’s Aria - Rimsky-Korsakov
Fantasia, Allemande, and Corrente from Partita No. 3 in A minor BVW 827
Piangeró la sorte mia - Handel