British mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat is in her second season of the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio as the Hildegard Zadek Scholarship holder. Highlights of the 25/26 season include ‘Zerlina’ in Don Giovanni, ‘Cherubino’ in Le Nozze di Figaro at Oper Köln, and concert debuts at the Wiener Musikverein and Carnegie Hall. Last season, her roles included ‘Lola’ in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and ‘Kate Pinkerton’ in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Anita recently won 2nd prize at the 2024 Neue Stimmen competition, 1st prize at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars competition and was a semifinalist at the 30th edition of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in 2023. Anita was a member of the Young Singer’s Project at the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele, performing in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and also attended the 2024 International Meistersinger Akademie (IMA).

In concert, Anita recently appeared as a soloist at the inaugural Wiener Staatsoper Opern Air Gala, and made her debut at the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk alongside Stefan Gottfriend and Concentus Musicus Wien. Other concert highlights include soloist at Christmas in Vienna at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Graf. In the UK, Anita has appeared as soloist in Bach’s St John Passion at London’s Barbican Centre with Britten Sinfonia, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah with the London Handel Festival, and the St John Passion with Philippe Herreweghe. Anita has participated in many public masterclasses with artists such as KS Neil Shicoff, Malcolm Martineau and Mary Bevan.

Prior to joining the Opernstudio, Anita studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with KS Michael Schade and Laura Aikin. Whilst at the MdW, Anita’s roles included ‘Hänsel’ in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and the principal role in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine. During her studies in the UK, Anita held both choral and instrumental scholarships at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read music. She then studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under the tutelage of Alex Ashworth and Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Anita is represented by Fabiana Dalpiaz at Askonas Holt.