In the 2025-2026 season, Anna Thomspon joins the Academy of Vocal Arts as a Resident Artist, where she will debut as Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Die Gräfin in Strauss’s Capriccio. Next summer, she joins the Merola Opera Program to sing Micäela in Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen. Last season, Thompson debuted the title role in Alcina and Marie Antoinette in The Ghosts of Versailles at Rice University. She also debuted at the Bard Music Festival as Mariken in the world premiere of the original French version of Bohuslav Martinů’s Mariken de Nimègue, and as the soprano soloist in Martinů’s The Prophecy of Isaiah.

Thompson was recently named a 2025 Sullivan Foundation Award Winner, Special Judge’s Prize Winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Art Song Competition, and Winner of the Philadelphia District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She is an alumna of 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 and School. She holds an M.M. from Rice University and a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music.

Photo by Elvis Herrera