The Artist

Canadian lyric coloratura soprano Anne Elizabeth Sorbara combines a warm, luminous tone with brilliant coloratura and a compelling stage presence. An emerging artist, she is developing a distinctive artistic voice on both the opera and concert stage, moving with equal ease between virtuosic repertoire and vividly drawn character roles.

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Anne opens the 2026/27 season at the Bad Reichenhall Singing Festival, performing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for soprano and orchestra. She then brings her flair for bel canto and Verdi repertoire to two opera galas with the Bergische Symphoniker.

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Highlights of the 2025/26 season included performances of arias by Mozart and Haydn with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic under the direction of Daniel Spaw, as well as a New Year’s tour with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. She also performed with the Münchner Symphoniker at the Ball der Sterne. A further collaboration with Daniel Spaw brought her to the Jena Philharmonic. At Theater Heidelberg, she stepped in at short notice as Aspasia in the Baroque opera Alcibiades, with the press praising her “warm soprano and radiant top notes.”

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During the 2024/25 season, Anne made her role and company debut as the Prima Donna in Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma at Oper Halle. She also made her debut at Oper Kiel as Adele in Die Fledermaus and appeared in A Christmas Carol. Further engagements included the Wismar Festival as Lucy in The Threepenny Opera, as well as an Italian opera gala with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Milton.

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Her operatic repertoire includes Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Theater Delphi Berlin; the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute with Kammeroper Köln; Pamina in The Magic Flute at Allee Theater Hamburg; and Morgana in Alcina, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, and Adele in Die Fledermaus with Hamburger Kammeroper.

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Born in Toronto, Canada, Anne earned her Bachelor of Music with honours from Wilfrid Laurier University and her Master’s degree in Voice from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.