anna thompson
soprano
about.
Anna Thompson is a 2026 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and a current member of The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This season, she makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as the High Priestess in Aida. She also covers the roles of Karolka in Jenůfa and the First Sentry in Parsifal. Recent roles include Countess Madeleine (Capriccio), Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Micäela (La Tragédie de Carmen), Alcina (Alcina), Marie Antoinette (The Ghosts of Versailles), Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Female Chorus (cover) (The Rape of Lucretia), and Mary Johnson (cover) (Fellow Travelers). In concert, she recently made her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra.
She has also been recognized with the Top Prize at the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, a George & Nora London Foundation Award, a Sullivan Foundation Award, 3rd Place in the Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition, 2nd Prize in the Giulio Gari Foundation International Vocal Competition, 5th Place in the Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition, 2nd Place in the Florida Grand Opera: Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, and the Judges’ Special Prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation Art Song Competition.
She is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program, the Apprentice Program for Singers at The Santa Fe Opera, the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Aspen Music Festival & School. She holds a M.M. from Rice University, a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and finished her training at the Academy of Vocal Arts.
