Soloist

Anna Montanaro

Anna Montanaro is one of the best known musical performers in the German-speaking world and as Velma Kelly in »Chicago« was the third German performer to make the leap to New York's Broadway after Hildegard Knef and Ute Lemper. She played the same role in London's West End (alongside Brooke Shields) and in the first German-language performance in Vienna and at the Capitol Theatre in Düsseldorf.

In addition, Anna Montanaro has played such roles as Reno Sweeney (»Anything Goes«), Sally Bowles (»Cabaret«), Rosemarie Nitribitt (in the first performance of »Das Mädchen Rosemarie«), Aurora (»Kuss der Spinnenfrau«), Mary Magdalene (»Jesus Christ Superstar«), Carmen (in the first performance of the musical of the same name), Lucy (»Jekyll & Hyde«), Polly (»Crazy for You«), Witch (»Into the Woods«), Anita (»West Side Story«), Marilyn Monroe (in the first performance of »Marilyn – Das Musical«), Donna (»Mamma Mia!«), the title role in »Evita«, Grizabella (»Cats«) and the main female role in »La Belle Bizarre du Moulin Rouge« in venues such as the Kassel State Theatre, Klagenfurt City Theatre, the Capitol Theatre, Düsseldorf, the St. Gallen Theatre, Cologne's Musical Dome, Graz Opera and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Essen's Colosseum Theater and the Komödie Düsseldorf, plus the Tecklenburg Open-Air Festival and the Bad Hersfeld Festival.

In addition, she also appears regularly in her own solo programmes and galas, can be heard on numerous cast albums and was twice voted Best Performer in Musicals by the readers of the journal »musicals«. 2017 she was awarded with the »Deutsche Musical Theater Preis« in the category »Best Performance by a Leading Actress« for her interpretation of the role of Ilse in the world premiere of »Vom Fischer und seiner Frau« by Marc Schubring and Kevin Schröder.

She appeared at the Gärtnerplatztheater as Reno Sweeney in »Anything Goes« and created in 2015 the role of the Marquise de Merteuil in the world premiere of »Gefährliche Liebschaften«.