The soprano Anna Samuil is one of the most sought-after Russian singers of her generation and has been a soloist since 2004 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
Her international career quickly brought her to the most important stages of the world: the La Scala in Milan (Donna Anna, Freia & Gutrune), the Metropolitan Opera New York (Musetta), the Staatsoper in Munich (Violetta, Donna Anna), Dresden ( Mimì) and Hamburg (Adina, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Violetta), to the opera houses in Valencia (Donna Anna), Lyons (Maria in Mazeppa), Tel Aviv and Tokyo (Donna Anna, Rosalinde), Pittsburgh (Violetta, Tatjana ), Baltimore (Mimì) and the Grand Théâtre Luxembourg (Violetta).
As a much sought after guest at international festivals, Anna Samuil has enjoyed great success at the Salzburg Festival (Tatjana), in Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh (Violetta & Maria), in Glyndebourne, Verbier and the Arena di Verona (Donna Anna) as well as at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Verdi's "Messa da Requiem").
She has extensive collaborations with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Sir Neville Marriner, Lorin Maazel, Antonio Pappano, Placido Domingo, Dmitry Kitaenko, Kent Nagano, Manfred Honeck, Chung Myung-whun, Ivor Bolton, Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski , Gustavo Dudamel, Dan Ettinger, Philippe Jordan, Asher Fish, Andris Nelsons, Massimo Zanetti and Stefano Ranzani.
The directors who accompany her career include Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Stein, Andrea Breth, Jonathan Miller, Bernard Uzan, Achim Freyer, Jonathan Kent, Claus Guth, Guy Cassiers, Lindy Hume or Marthe Keller.
Anna Samuil was born in the Russian city of Perm.
She studied violin as well as singing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and graduated in 2003 with distinction from the concert exam in the vocal class of Irina Arkhipova.
She is a laureate of major international singing competitions, including the »Tchaikovsky Competition« and the »Glinka Competition« in Russia, the »Concorso Franco Corelli« and »Concorso Riccardo Zandonai« in Italy, and the »Klaudia Taev« competitions in Estonia and » New voices «in Germany.
Her operatic debut she celebrated in the role of the swan princess at the Moscow Stanislawski Opera Theater, where she was subsequently engaged from 2001 to 2004. During this time she also appeared as Adele, Queen of Schemacha, Violetta and Gilda.
At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Anna Samuil made her debut in September 2003 as Violetta under the baton of Daniel Barenboim and has since appeared as Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, Contessa, Tatiana, Mimì and Musetta, Violetta, Elisabetta, Alice Ford, Adina, Micaëla, Rosalinde, Mařenka, Elsa, Eva, Freia and Gutrune.
Orchestral concerts and recitals (with pianists Elena Bashkirova, Matthias Samuil and Semion Skigin) led the Russian singer to the most important European music centers, for example to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and to the BBC Proms in London, to the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Berlin Waldbühne and Kölner Philharmonie, the Moscow Bolschoi Theater, the Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival, the Norske Opera Oslo, the Festivals in Bad Kissingen and Colmar and in the Richard Wagner House Bayreuth.
In addition, she gave concerts in other cities such as Avignon, Bratislava, Dresden, Krakow, Lisbon, Moscow, Prague, Saint Petersburg, Toulouse, Valladolid and Vienna.
In recognition of her outstanding singing and acting achievements, Anna Samuil was honored in 2008 with the stage price "Daphne" of the Theater Community Berlin.
Numerous photographs document her artistic activity. "Eugene Onegin" from the Salzburg Festival (Deutsche Grammophon), "Don Giovanni" from Glyndebourne (EMI) and as a concert recording from Israel (Helicon), "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung" from the La Scala in Milan have been released on CD and DVD so far. Arthaus) and Britten's "War Requiem" under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner and Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim (Decca). On the occasion of the Rimsky-Korsakov jubilee in 2008, the CD »Angel & Demon« was released with songs and duets by the Russian composer.
