Soloist

Anna Agathonos

Anna Agathonos studied singing at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. A native of Greece, after graduation she was for two years a member of the International Opera Studio of Marseille before being permanently recruited to Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen in the 2001/2002 season. Here she first performed as a lyric mezzosoprano and made her profile especially as a specialist for bel canto.

Subsequently she sang, among others, the title role in »La Cenerentola« at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence and appeared as Marchesa Melibea in »Il viaggio a Reims« at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and as Rosina in »Il barbiere di Siviglia« at the Greek National Opera in Athens. In addition she made guest appearances at the opera houses of Marseille, Avignon and Dublin. Starting in the 2005/2006 season she gradually completed a switch to dramatic roles and accomplished, among other things, parts like the title role in »Carmen«, Azucena (»Il trovatore«), Amneris (»Aida«) and Dalila (»Samson et Dalila«), Ulrica (»Un ballo in maschera«), Cassandre (»Les Troyens«), Komponist (»Ariadne auf Naxos«), Auntie (»Peter Grimes«), Old Lady (»Candide«), Jezibaba (»Rusalka«) and Ortrud (»Lohengrin«).

Anna Agathonos worked freelance from 2010 to 2020. Guest engagements have taken her to various German opera houses, to other European countries (including the Greek National Opera in Athens, Opera Ireland in Dublin, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the Bartók Plus Opera Festival in Miskolc and the Open Air Festival Oper Burg Gars) and to the Gärtnerplatztheater, where she appeared on stage in »La sonnambula«, a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, »Der Wildschütz« and »Die Zauberflöte«, among others. She has been a permanent ensemble member here since the 2020/2021 season and has also interpreted roles such as the Gingerbread Witch (»Hansel and Gretel«), Filipyevna (»Eugene Onegin«) and Madame Flora (»The Medium«).