ABOUT
Anisa Kureishi was born in Calgary, Canada, and has lived in Canada, the USA, Germany, China, and Singapore. She began her music studies with piano at the age of four and with the oboe at age eight. At age twelve, she began classical voice training.
In 2009, Anisa Kureishi was selected to perform Mahler’s 4th Symphony with conductor Darrell Ang and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the President and Prime Minister of Singapore in the President’s Young Performer Concert. Later in 2009, she performed as a soloist at the opening of the Singapore Resorts World Sentosa. In 2013, she was a prize winner at the Lotte Lehmann Woche in Perleberg, Germany, and continued voice studies with Angelo Raciti in Berlin.
In 2019, she completed a BA (Honors) in philosophy and physics at Harvard University, during which time she debuted the role of Zorah in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore with the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players during the 2015/16 season. In 2021, she debuted the role of the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar and appeared as a soloist with the Thüringer Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt. In May 2023, she debuted the role of Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen with the New York-based Teatro Grattacielo in Heraklion, Greece and in July 2023, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival in Caltagirone, Italy.
In August 2024, she debuted Violetta Valéry in Verdi's La Traviata at the Vienna Opera Festival in Vienna, Austria.
With over twenty years of training in martial arts, Anisa Kureishi has been a faculty member for bodywork and movement training at the Lotte Lehmann Academy in Perleberg, Germany since 2015.
CV
2024
Vienna Opera Festival
Vienna, Austria
Violetta Valéry
Verdi, La Traviata
2023
Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival
Caltagirone, Italy
Teatro Grattacielo
Heraklion, Greece
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor
Frasquita
Bizet, Carmen
2021
Lyric Opera Studio Weimar
Weimar, Germany
La Contessa di Almaviva
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro
2019
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Physics
2015
Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players
Cambridge, MA, USA
Zorah
Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore
Voice Teachers
Coaches
Conductors
Angelo Raciti
Jack Li Vigni
Mary Mills-Gertken
Nelly Miricioiu-Kirk
Janet Williams
Scott Curry
Kenneth Duryea
Rolando Garzia
Felice Venanzoni
Darrell Ang
Kamal Khan
Myron Michailidis
Toby Purser
Directors
Florian Hackspiel
Stefanos Koroneos
Nina Kühner
Jesús León
Instruments
2011 to 2012 Singapore National Youth Orchestra Second Oboe, English Horn
2007 to 2013 United World College of Southeast Asia Principal Oboe
2005 to 2013 Oboe
1999 to present Piano
Languages
English native
German C1
Mandarin Chinese B1
Italian B1
Czech sung
French sung
Sports
2018 to present Baji Quan
2013 to 2018 Shaolin Kungfu
2005 to 2007 Modern Wushu
2000 to 2005 Kickboxing
Repertoire
Performed Roles
Bizet Carmen Frasquita
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Lucia di Lammermoor
Gilbert and Sullivan Ruddigore Zorah
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro La Contessa di Almaviva
Verdi La Traviata Violetta Valéry
Studied Roles
Bellini La Sonnambula Amina
Bizet Carmen Micaëla
Massenet Werther Sophie
Mozart Così fan tutte Fiordiligi
J. Strauss Die Fledermaus Adele
Rosalinde
Opera and Operetta
Beethoven Fidelio O wär ich schon mit Dir vereint
Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi Eccomi in lieta vesta... Oh! quante volte
I puritani Qui la voce sua soave…Vien, diletto
Berg Lulu Wenn sich die Menschen
Bernstein A Quiet Place Mommy, are you here?
Donizetti La fille du régiment Chacun le sait
Flotow Martha Letzte Rose
Das theuren zu versöhnen
Gounod Faust O Dieu! que de bijoux!…
Ah! je ris de me voir, si belle en ce miroir
Roméo et Juliette Je veux vivre
Händel Alcina Tornami a vagheggiar
Giulio Cesare Da tempeste il legno infranto
Korngold Die tote Stadt Glück, das mir verblieb
Lehár Die lustige Witwe Das Vilja Lied
Giuditta Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß
Massenet Manon Je marche sur tous les chemins...
Obéissons quand leur voix appelle
Menotti The Telephone The Telephone Aria
Mozart Die Zauberflöte Ach ich fühl’s
Così fan tutte Una donna a quindici anni
La clemenza di Tito S’altro che lacrime
Le nozze di Figaro Giunse alfin il momento...
Deh vieni, non tardar
Previn A Streetcar Named Desire I want magic!
Puccini La bohème Si, mi chiamano Mimì
Donde lieta usci
Quando m'en vo
La rondine Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Gianni Schicchi O mio babbino caro
Stolz Venus in Seide Spiel auf Deiner Geige
Verdi Falstaff Sul fil d'un soffio etesio
Rigoletto Gualtier Maldè!... Caro nome
von Weber Der Freischütz Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen
Oratorio and Concert
Fauré Requiem Pie Jesu
Händel Samson Let the bright seraphim
Mahler Symphony No. 4 Das himmlische Leben
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate Alleluja
Orff Carmina Burana In trutina
Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14