VOICE, OPERA STUDIO

After having brilliantly terminated her studies and earned her diploma at the St. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, she participated in a series of internships and Masterclasses with Jolanda Magnoni, Maria Carbone, Gabriele Tuzzi (Indiana University), Paul Spani (Zurich Opera), Mietta Sighele (MusicRiva Festival). She debued in 1989 in the role of Violetta in La Traviata at Sejong Theater in Seoul. A finalist in the International Competition held in Enna (1993) and winner of the “Voce Nuove” competition at the Experimental Theater in Spoleto (1994), she was the leading singer in two world premieres at the Caio Melisso Theater in Spoleto: Ligea by Augusta Read Thomas and Anacleto Morones by Victor Rasgado, this latter staged by Ronconi and with Taverna as musical director. That same year at the Florence Teatro Comunale she was the lead female voice in a modern staging of Piccinni's Bella Verità also featuring Daniella Barcelona. In the period from 1990 to 2010 she made numerous recordings of contemporary music for Rai-Italian Radio and Television Network and sang both in various chamber ensembles and as a solist. She has been a member of the Nehar Shalom Ensemble since 1998, together with Calogero Palermo, Andrea Bergamelli and Tonino Riolo, offering a series of absolute firsts, among which have been Circles by Mark Kopytman and a chamber music version of Iz yevreskoi narodnol poezil by Shostakovich. As part of a trio, with clarinet and piano, she has mainly proposed the romantic repertory (Schubert, Spohr, Meyerbeer). Together with the Nehar Shalom Ensemble she has sung several times on the special occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Shoah and on live TV for The Bible, Night and Day, from the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. During the past few years, she has successfully taken on important solist roles in various Italian theaters, appearing as the lead singer in Teshuvah at the Abbey of S. Lorenzo in Trento for the Festival Silence and Listening. In addition she participated in the 2004 edition Telethon concerts and, in the past ten years, she has had a role in important tournées in Germany (Hannover), Japan (Tokyo) and Australia (Sydney). Anais Lee is the President of Associazione Mozart Italia sede di Terni, since 2010, the year of its establishment, with the patronage of Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg.