Anna Goodhew studied singing at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She achieved a BMus (1st class honours) with a Concert Recital Diploma in 2010 and won a scholarship to continue onto the Guildhall Artist Masters the following year. Whilst there, Anna took part in masterclasses taken by Julius Drake, Graham Johnson, Catherine Wyn Rogers, Dame Josephine Barstow, Sally Burgess, Graham Clark and Susan McCollogh. Awards include the Singer’s Prize at the Gerald Moore Award (2012), 2nd Prize at Guildhall’s English song Prize (2011) and finalist in Guildhall’s Susan Longfield Award (2011).

Anna made her operatic debut at the age of 19, singing the role of Barbarina in Opera Brava’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. Since then she has appeared as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (Guildford Opera Company), Violetta in La Traviata (Brent Opera), Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro (DEBUT), Musetta in La Bohème (Amick Productions), Clorinda in La Cenerentola (GOC), Pamina and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Pavillion Opera), Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (Opera Lyrica),  Micaela in Carmen (Opera South East), Juliet in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet  (Riverside opera), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Eurydice in Glück’s Orfeo ed Eurydice and the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon (Act 3 only) at Zêzere Arts Festival, Portugal, Blumenmädchen in Parsifal (Fulham Opera) and Chorus in Dialogue des Carmélites (Guildhall School). Roles performed with Guildhall’s Opera Ensemble include Fiordiligi in Cosí Fan Tutte, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Title role in Arabella and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Anna is in high demand for concert work; highlights being Jonathan Miller’s staged production of St Matthew Passion at The National Theatre and sang a recital of Mozart song in the Barbican Hall. Other concert work includes Handel’s Theodora, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah,  Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Parry’s Magnificat, Schubert’s Mass in G  Michal in Handel’s Saul, Dvorak Mass in D and Lad’s in their Hundreds; a dramatised song performance directed by Iain Burnside which toured in London and to the English Song Festival in Ludlow. Anna has sung live several times on BBC radio 3’s In Tune programme.


Future engagements for 2023 include Countess in The Marriage of Figaro (New Aquarian Opera) and Mimi (cover) in La Boheme (DEBUT).

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