Anna Sideris

“The rich layers of Anna Sideris’ appealing lyric soprano, conveyed sensual sauciness and flashed with feistiness…” (Claire Seymour, Opera Magazine). Anna Sideris is a lyric coloratura soprano working on the opera stage and recital platform, recognized for her dramatically engaging performances and richness of tone.
Recent operatic performances include: Violetta 'La Traviata' (Verdi) and First Lady 'The Magic Flute' (Mozart) for Oxford Opera, Borka 'Borka' (Hepplewhite and Yelland) for Ignite Music, Yum Yum 'The Mikado' (Gilbert and Sullivan) for Merry Opera, Giulia Grisi 'Victorian Pantomime' at Kensington Palace, Donna Elvira 'Don Giovanni' (Mozart) for Rogue Opera and Opera Loki; False Angele 'The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken' (Kurt Weill); Susanna 'Le Nozze di Figaro' (Mozart) for Dartington Opera and Merry Opera Company; chorus mentor 'Wagner Project' and 'Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk' (Shostakovich) for Birmingham Opera.
Concerts include: Mozart Requiem and Vivaldi Gloria with Hanover Band, Handel Messiah, Faure Requiem and Mozart Requiem for Brandenburg Festival, Tippett 'Child of our Time', Mozart Mass in C minor performed in Bath Bach Choir, Boulez 'Improvisations sur Mallarmé' with the Manon Ensemble for Aldeburgh festival, Strauss Vier letzte lieder with the Oxford Millennium Orchestra.
She performed two Fauré songs for BBC Radio 3 Music Matters and performed in a number of recitals for the Rimbaud & Verlaine foundation at Kings Place London.
Anna is also a passionate teaching artist. She is currently Head of Outreach for Alina Orchestra, she designed and delivered Restoration for Oxford Opera - a singing program to help those living with Long Covid, she has worked for Grange Park Opera on their Primary Robbins scheme and was involved in LikeUnlike and Time Capsule for the Grange Festival. Anna was a Live Music Now artist, has been an artist for Song Easel and she was a leading artist in the inaugural year of Little Opera UK. Anna is always on the lookout for ways to bring music into the wider community.
Anna read music at Oxford University; where she participated in masterclasses with Renée Fleming and Toby Spence. She obtained her Masters from Royal Academy of Music and then graduated the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2017.