Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird is rapidly gaining attention by major companies in her young career. Of a recent performance, the Seattle Times says “no one shone brighter than Anne-Carolyn Bird...her stage presence [is] nothing short of magnetic.”

Ms. Bird made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2006-2007 season, singing two roles in a new production of Il Trittico, and she has since returned in performances as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, among other productions. Upcoming engagements include Beatrice in John Musto’s Inspector from Rome at the Wolf Trap Opera, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Nashville Opera and Opera Columbus, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera for Boris Godunov and Don Carlo, a production that will tour to Japan during the summer 2011.

Noted engagements from the past few seasons include Yum-Yum in The Mikado at Arizona Opera and Opera New Jersey, Micäela in Carmen and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at Opera Carolina, Marguerite in Faust and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Dayton Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Nashville Opera, three recital collaborations with pianist Jocelyn Dueck, including one at her alma mater, the University of Georgia, and a return to Wolf Trap Opera to perform Cunegonde in Candide with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Lord and starring Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander as Pangloss.

Past performance highlights include Celia in John Musto’s Grammy-nominated comedic masterpiece Volpone at the Wolf Trap Opera, and Noémie in Laurent Pelly’s highly-acclaimed production of Cendrillon at Santa Fe Opera. She has been seen in staged and concert versions of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar and can be heard on the Grammy award-winning recording.

Recent concert appearances include her Carnegie Hall debut in Evan Chamber’s oratorio The Old Burying Ground, an All-American concert at Merkin Hall with New York Festival of Song, CPE Bach's Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu with Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Cleveland Orchestra, “An Evening of Musical Shakespeare” with the Atlanta Symphony, both conducted by Nicholas McGegan, as well as Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat with Portland Baroque Orchestra. In 2006, she toured internationally with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to perform Golijov’s La Pasion de segun San Marcos(“luminous” -The New York Times).

The Bhakti Project, Ms. Bird’s on-going recital project with Ms. Dueck, included a recent world premiere: Hillula by Judd Greenstein. Steve Smith from Time Out New York wrote of the performance: “Bird proved herself a singer capable of ... getting under the skin of a piece, touching its inner passions and revealing them to a listener.” Ms. Bird reprised Hillula with the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO as part of the Archipelago music series in the fall 2009.

Ms. Bird has been a recipient of grants and awards from many organizations, including the ullivan Foundation (2008), the Santa Fe Opera, the Oratorio Society of New York, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Twice a Young Artist with the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers and twice a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, she holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the University of Georgia. She lives in Astoria, NY with her husband, bass-baritone Matthew Burns.