Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano) appears regularly in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Real in Madrid, Theater an der Wien, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival. Her operatic repertoire includes a large number of roles in operas by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Purcell, Bizet and Massenet.

Throughout her career she has specialised in Baroque music, and her other repertoire includes Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été, La Damnation de Faust and L’enfance du Christ, Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Beethoven‘s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No 9 and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius.

She has worked regularly with such conductors such as Fabio Biondi, William Christie, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Daniel Harding, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Antonio Pappano and Christophe Rousset, and with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. She has also enjoyed long-term partnerships with the ensembles such as Les Talens Lyriques, Il Complesso Barocco, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Europa Galante, and in 2019 she was name Artist in Residence at Drottningholm, where she sang the title roles in Handel’s Ariodante and Agrippina. In 2021 she was appointed a Royal Court Singer by the King of Sweden, and in 2022 she became a Member of the Swedish Academy of Music.

Ann has recorded more than forty CDs and DVDs, and has twice won the award for ‘Best Operatic Recital’ at the International Opera Awards.