Anna Virovlansky

As of the beginning of the 2009/10 season Anna Virovlansky is a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Her first premiere has been her debut as Gilda in “Rigoletto”. Other roles in Düsseldorf this year are Argia in Rameau’s “Les paladins” and Pamina.
In the summer of 2010 Anna Virovlansky will make her Glyndebourne Festival debut as Zerlina in “Don Giovanni”.
During the next season Anna will make her debut as Soer Blanche in "Dialogues of the Carmelites" of Poulenc and  "Manon" of Massenet in Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Giulleta in "Capuleti i e Montecci of Bellini in Aalto Theater Essen, and Musetta in "Boheme" in Bayerische Staatsoper.
Since 2004 Anna Virovlansky has been engaged at the opera house in Bonn, where she acquired a broad repertoire, including Sophie in “Der Rosenkavalier”, Marzelline (“Fidelio”), Musetta, Norina, Oscar and, especially, the important lyric Mozart roles of Zerlina, Pamina and Susanna, which she has also been singing at Essen’s Aalto Theatre. An important step in her career has also been her debut as Violetta in a revival of “La Traviata” in March 2009.
Born in St. Petersburg, she emigrated to Israel with her family in 1990. Subsequently, she studied voice with Agness Massini at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, and was accepted into the Israeli Opera Studio immediately upon completing her studies, in the 2003/2004 season.
Anna Virovlansky first attracted attention when she won the “Spring Voices Competition” in Israel, in 2003. That same year, her success at the international singing competition “Neue Stimmen” in Gütersloh, Germany, led to her contract with the Bonn opera house. At the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, 2004, she was awarded an engagement at the theatre in Basel, as well as a special prize from the "Professional Association of Opera Directors". She received the “Förderpreis für hervorragende junge Künstler der Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2006" (a study grant for outstanding young artists) and was nominated young artist of the year by the Opernwelt magazine in 2006.
She has also been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), the IVAI, the Richard Wagner Verband (2005), and has won several prizes from Israel’s Rubin Academy.