Anna La Fontaine, Austria Born in Austria, the soprano Anna la Fontaine took piano, violin and ballet lessons from a very young age. She studied classical singing with Simon Schouten in the Netherlands and music theory at the Utrecht Conservatoire, as well as drama in Munich and Amsterdam. Anna la Fontaine made her first encounters with the world of opera as a member of the "Arnold Schoenberg Chor" in a production of "Die Fledermaus" by J.Strauss at the Salzburg Festival. At the Pax 2005 Festival in Augsburg she premiered as a soloist in the music-theatre production "Garten Eden", and had her opera debut as Axinia in the scenic world première of J.Mattheson's "Boris Goudenow" (1710), staged to great acclaim in Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Moscow. As a concert singer, Anna la Fontaine's record includes performances of Fauré's Requiem, Blackford's Mirror of Perfection and Gounod's Requiem as well as a wide variety of works by Bach, Haendel, Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Vivaldi and Mendelssohn. Her operatic repertoire stretches from Ilia and Idamante in Idomeneo, Susanna, Cherubino and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni to Belinda and Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She gives many recitals in the Netherlands, France and Italy with programs reaching from C.Huygens through Schubert and Schumann to Webern. In 2008 she was a substitute for the roles of Ilia, Idamante and Elettra in the production of Idomeneo under the direction of © All rights reserved 2011         nik@athAnAS