Praised by The New York Times as “nimble of voice, body and spirit,” GRAMMY Award®–winning soprano Anna Christy continues to captivate audiences with her radiant voice, compelling stage presence, and innate musicality. In the 2025–2026 season, she returns to the Colorado Symphony for Messiah, following recent appearances there in Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Bruckner’s Psalm 150, and Messiah.
Ms. Christy’s operatic repertoire spans an impressive array of roles and styles, including Don Giovanni, Madame Mao, Lucia Silla, Fidelio, The Mother of Us All, Zémire et Azor, A Wedding, An American Tragedy, Die Zauberflöte, Candide, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Giulio Cesare, Dialogues des Carmélites, Un ballo in maschera, Bianca e Falliero, La rondine, Die Fledermaus, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Ariadne auf Naxos, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Our Town, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Alcina, Gianni Schicchi, and La bohème. She has appeared on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Philadelphia, Canadian Opera Company, The Santa Fe Opera, Teatro Real, Opéra National de Bordeaux, English National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra de Lille, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Central City Opera.
She is a frequent collaborator with many of the world’s foremost conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Peter Oundjian, Joe Hisaishi, Stéphane Denève, Brett Mitchell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Harry Bicket, Charles Dutoit, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, David Stern, Bertrand de Billy, Bramwell Tovey, George Manahan, Antony Walker, James Conlon, Paul Daniel, Marco Armiliato, Julius Rudel, Donald Runnicles, Kent Nagano, Jane Glover, and Emmanuel Plasson. Her orchestral work includes performances of Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4, East Land Symphony, Messiah, In Terra Pax, and Carmina Burana with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saito Kinen Festival, The English Concert, Baltimore Symphony, and Les Vents Atlantiques.
Ms. Christy is a recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Career Grant, the ARIA Award, a Sullivan Foundation Grant, the Richard F. Gold Grant, and the Shouse Debut Artist Award from Wolf Trap Opera.
Born in Chicago and raised in Pasadena, California, Anna spent her summers in Tokyo, Japan, at her mother’s family home and is fluent in Japanese. She is a graduate of Rice University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and an alumna of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and Pasadena’s Polytechnic School. She now resides in Colorado with her husband and children.
2025-2026
