Anna Burford
Mezzo Soprano
Managed by Doreen O’Neill
doreen@harlequin-agency.co.uk

Anna Burford was born in Cornwall, and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Operatic engagements include her USA debut in the title role Giulio Cesare for Seattle Opera, title-role Orfeo ed Euridice and Roswita Heloise et Abelard for Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg, Roswita Heloise et Abelard for Chatelet, Paris, Owl in The Cricket Recovers at Bregenz Festival, Mrs McLean Susannah and Mrs Nolan The Medium for Wexford Festival and Cesare in Giulio Cesare for Opera Ireland. In Britain her roles include Ursule Beatrice and Benedict, Suzuki Madame Butterfly, Maddalena Rigoletto and Page Salome for WNO, Amastris Xerxes, Maddalena, Anna The Trojans and Dresser, Schoolboy, Waiter Lulu for ENO.

Concert highlights include Messiah with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Rodelinda with the Gabrieli Consort, Sea Pictures and A Child of our Time with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Serenade to Music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven Symphony No 9 with the Hallé Orchestra, Orchestre de Tours, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Recent engagements include Cesare Giulio Cesare for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Margret in a concert performance of Wozzeck with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Paris and at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Olga in Eugene Onegin at Théâtre de Caen and Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Welsh National Opera.