ANNA-SOPHIE NEHER

World Management

Mozart – Voi avete un cor fedele

Rossini – Le Comte Ory – En proie à la tristesse

Canadian-German soprano Anna-Sophie Neher, a former member of the prestigious Ensemble Studio of the Canadian Opera Company, is impressing audiences as a Mozart, Baroque and French repertoire specialist.

This season, Anna-Sophie Neher returns to the C.O.C. as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice and to the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.as the soprano solo in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

Last season Ms. Neher appeared as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestre Métropolitan and Yannick Nézet-Séguin as well as with the Orchestre Symphonique de Gâtineau. She joined the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec for Mozart’s Requiem and I Musici for a Christmas program.

Recently Ms. Neher returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Marzelline in Fidelio. She appeared in concert with the Choeur Classique de Montréal in Bach’s Magnificat and in Rutter’s Gloria and with the Ensemble Caprice in Handel’s Messiah.

Previously Ms. Neher appeared at the Canadian Opera Company as Micaela in Carmen and at the Opéra National de Paris as the First Niece in a new Deborah Warner production of Peter Grimes.

Prior to that, Anna-Sophie made her Opéra National de Paris debut as Antigone in Enesco’s Oedipe, returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as the Soprano Soloist in Messiah and appeared with the Calgary Philharmonic in a program of Mozart arias.

In the 2020-2021 season, Anna-Sophie appeared in concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in a virtual presentation of the Vivaldi Gloria and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah and performed the role of Servilia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and as the Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s C minor Mass (the latter conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin) as part of the Classica Festival in Montreal. Praised for her “gleaming tone and excellent agility” (Ludwig van Toronto), Anna-Sophie has sung an extensive amount of orchestral concert repertoire from Bach and Mozart to Pärt and Williams.

Ms. Neher earned her master’s degree from McGill University and her bachelor’s degree from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. She also perfected her art for a year at Bard College. During her studies, she performed as Blanche in Dialogue des Carmélites, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. Anna-Sophie has also received many scholarships including the Sylva Gelber Foundation (2018-2019) and the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation (2016-2017-2018).