Praised for her "divine" (Palm Beach Post),  “rich, beautifully emotional” sound (DC Metro Arts), with an "impressive upper range” (Berkshire Eagle), mezzo-soprano Anna Kelly is a second year member of the Artist Diploma Program in Opera Studies at the Juilliard School, where she is a recipient of the Tatiana Troyanos Scholarship.​ 

 

In the 2025/26 season, Ms. Kelly will debut as Hänsel in Juilliard Opera’s fall 2025 production of Hänsel und Gretel, conducted by Patrick Furrer and directed by Kevin Newbury. She will also cover the role of Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, and appear in recital performing Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. In concert, she joins the Phoenix Symphony for four performances of Handel’s Messiah under Maestro Tyson Deaton, sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Glacier Symphony, and performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic.

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Earlier in 2025, Ms. Kelly performed with the Irish National Symphony as the second-place winner of the international Veronica Dunne Competition in Dublin, presenting works by Mozart, Strauss, and Massenet. Later that spring, she debuted as Mère Marie in Juilliard Opera’s Dialogues des Carmélites and covered the title role in L’enfant et les Sortilèges. She subsequently appeared with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in Knoxville, performing substantial excerpts as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and as Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos. Ms. Kelly closed the spring season by receiving a Laffont Education Grant from the Metropolitan Opera. During the summer, she joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, 

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In 2024, Ms. Kelly made multiple role debuts: as Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Opera Saratoga, and as Federica in Luisa Miller with Sarasota Opera, where she also covered the title role in Carmen.​​​ In past seasons, Ms. Kelly was an apprentice artist with Wolf Trap and Palm Beach Operas, and appeared in concert and recital with the Metropolitan Club of Washington DC, the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington Opera Society. 

 

A successful vocal competitor, Ms. Kelly recently performed  with the Irish National Symphony as the 2nd Place & Audience Choice award winner of the 2025 Veronica Dunne International Vocal Competition. She also appeared as a semifinalist in both the Metropolitan Opera's 2022 Laffont Competition, and in the 2024 Houston Grand Opera's Eleanor McCollum Competition. 

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Additional honors include 1st place wins in the 2023 James Toland Vocal Competition, 2024 National Opera Association’s Carolyn Bailey Argento Competition, and the Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition (2022 junior division and 2024 senior division). Further competition highlights include awards from the Opera Index Competition, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and the Loren L. Zachary Competition.​

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Ms. Kelly is a graduate of Yale University's School of Music, and has trained with esteemed young artist programs such as the Houston Grand Opera Young Artists’ Vocal Academy, Palm Beach Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.

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