British mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy is the winner of the Royal Over-Seas League International Music Competition Singing Award, prizewinner at the IVC Opera and Oratorio Competition and the Josep Palet Competition. Annabel is a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Opera Studio, a Glyndebourne Jerwood Artist and a Garsington Alvarez Young Artist.
In the 2025/26 season, Annabel performs a variety of roles at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, including Cherubino in Michael Hampe's production of Le Nozze di Figaro and Sandmännchen in the classic “evergreen” Andreas Meyer-Hanno production of Hänsel und Gretel. She makes several important debuts, appearing as Siegrune in Die Walküre, Bénoni in Gounod's rarely performed opera La Reine de Saba, Nireno in a new production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto and 2nd Knappe in Michael Thalheimer’s staging of Parsifal.
Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Flora Bervoix (La traviata), Juno (Plateé), L'enfant (L'enfant et les sortilèges), Minskwoman (Flight), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Zweite Magd (Elektra) and Public Opinion (Orpheus in the Underworld). She has performed for companies including Glyndebourne Opera, Garsington Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Nevill Holt Opera.
Her concert highlights include appearing as soloist at Cadogan Hall performing compositions by Prince Albert with the London Chamber Orchestra, singing the role of Euterpe in Handel's Parnasso in festa at Wigmore Hall in the London Handel Festival, and, as winner of the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition, performing Mahler's ‘Rückert-Lieder’ with the RCM Philharmonic Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
Annabel is a keen recitalist with a particular affinity for the English song repertoire, collaborating regularly with pianists Daniel Peter Silcock, Ana Manastireanu and Emily Hoh. Competition awards include First Prize in the Lies Askonas Competition, First Prize in the Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition and First Prize in the inaugural Ashburnham English Song Awards.
Annabel graduated from the Royal College of Music's International Opera Studio as a Siow-Furniss Scholar, under the tutelage of Amanda Roocroft. She was also a Verbier Festival 'Atelier Lyrique' Artist, a Samling Artist, an Opera Prelude Artist and a Britten Pears Young Artist.
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British mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy is the winner of the Royal Over-Seas League International Music Competition Singing Award, prizewinner at the IVC Opera and Oratorio Competition and the Josep Palet Competition. Annabel is a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Opera Studio, a Glyndebourne Jerwood Artist and a Garsington Alvarez Young Artist.
In the 2025/26 season, Annabel performs a variety of roles at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, including Cherubino in Michael Hampe's production of Le Nozze di Figaro and Sandmännchen in the classic “evergreen” Andreas Meyer-Hanno production of Hänsel und Gretel. She makes several important debuts, appearing as Siegrune in Die Walküre, Bénoni in Gounod's rarely performed opera La Reine de Saba, Nireno in a new production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto and 2nd Knappe in Michael Thalheimer’s staging of Parsifal.
Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Flora Bervoix (La traviata), Juno (Plateé), L'enfant (L'enfant et les sortilèges), Minskwoman (Flight), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Zweite Magd (Elektra) and Public Opinion (Orpheus in the Underworld). She has performed for companies including Glyndebourne Opera, Garsington Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Nevill Holt Opera.
Her concert highlights include appearing as soloist at Cadogan Hall performing compositions by Prince Albert with the London Chamber Orchestra, singing the role of Euterpe in Handel's Parnasso in festa at Wigmore Hall in the London Handel Festival, and, as winner of the Royal College of Music Concerto Competition, performing Mahler's ‘Rückert-Lieder’ with the RCM Philharmonic Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.
Annabel is a keen recitalist with a particular affinity for the English song repertoire, collaborating regularly with pianists Daniel Peter Silcock, Ana Manastireanu and Emily Hoh. Competition awards include First Prize in the Lies Askonas Competition, First Prize in the Brooks van der Pump English Song Competition and First Prize in the inaugural Ashburnham English Song Awards.
Annabel graduated from the Royal College of Music's International Opera Studio as a Siow-Furniss Scholar, under the tutelage of Amanda Roocroft. She was also a Verbier Festival 'Atelier Lyrique' Artist, a Samling Artist, an Opera Prelude Artist and a Britten Pears Young Artist.
BIOGRAPHY NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION, PLEASE CONTACT ANNABELFOR AN UP TO DATE BIOGRAPHY.