Anna Dowsley

Mezzo Soprano

Anna Dowsley’s recent operatic engagements include Sister Helen (Dead Man Walking, Landestheater Detmold), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Frankfurt), Dorabella (Così fan tutte, Opera Queensland), Adalgisa (Norma, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa), Olga (Eugene Onegin, Opera Frankfurt), Carmen (Carmen, Staatstheater Nürnberg) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni, Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari).

Anna toured nationally with the Australian Chamber Orchestra as guest soloist on their 2022 Bach concert program and again with Musica Viva in 2024 performing the Bolcom Cabaret Songs with pianist Michael Curtain.

With Opera Australia, her roles have included: Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Dorabella, Cherubino, Zerlina, Siebel (Faust), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Flora (La traviata), Tebaldo (Don Carlos) and Zaida (Il turco in Italia). Anna performed the title role in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Sydney Chamber Opera, and toured with New Zealand Opera’s The Mikado (Pitti Sing).

Anna performed the title role in Pinchgut Opera’s Orontea and starred in their 2020 full-length opera film A Delicate Fire. On the concert platform, Anna has performed with L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Hungarian National Philharmonic; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; the Sydney, Tasmanian, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras; Van Diemen’s Band; Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Anna was the recipient of the YMF Australian Opera Award in 2019. Scheduled future role debuts include Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Nicklausse/Muse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and Charlotte (Werther).

Anna Dowsley is supported by Susie Dickson and the late Martin Dickson AM