Ana James

Lyric coloratura soprano Ana James was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. A recent graduate of the Benjamin Britten International Opera School, Royal College of Music London, she studies with Lillian Watson. A winner of several scholarships and competitions, she is the inaugural recipient of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Scholarship. Ana is also a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, New York, where she studied with Marlena Kleinmann Malas. She was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden from September 2005 to July 2007.

Ana James sang Ygraine in a 2007 recording of Ariane et Barbe-bleue with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein. In a 2012 live recording of I quatro rusteghi she sang Felice with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko. In the 2013 live recording of Parsifal at the Proms, she sang a flower maiden with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder.