The 2014-2015 season brought anticipated role debuts for Ms. Matanovič’s 2015-2016 season featured a debut with New Orleans Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus.

She also appeared in concert with the Cleveland Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The season also included notable role debuts, including Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Boston Lyric Opera, and Mabel in Pirates of Penzance with Lyric Opera of Kansas City. The 2016-2017 season began with an anticipated return to Seattle Opera, as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel. Last season included her company debut as Mimi in La bohème with Opera Colorado, and debut with the Eugene Concert Choir for Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. This season, she will return to Utah Opera to sing the role of Juliette, make her debut with the North Carolina Symphony in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor , and join the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, covering the role of Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante. She finishes the season with a house and role debut as Abigail in Robert Ward’s The Crucible with Opera Santa Barbara. In her debut with the Glimmerglass Festival as Micaëla, she was praised for her “sinuous soprano with its golden timbre and silky-smooth legato, charmed the ears immediately…” and “first-class performance” (David Abrams, Musical Criticism). Praised for her “thrilling vocal color” and “sweetly winning” presence, American soprano Anya Matanovic made her international opera debut as Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli’s captivating production of Puccini’s La bohème with the New Israeli Opera’s.

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