Anna Lucia Richter hails from a large family of musicians. As a long-standing member of the girls’ choir at Cologne Cathedral, she received singing lessons from her mother Regina Dohmen from the age of nine. Subsequently she was trained by Prof. Kurt Widmer in Basle and graduated with distinction from the class of Professor Klesie Kelly-Moog at the Cologne Academy of Music. She received further coaching from Edda Moser, Christoph Prégardien, Edith Wiens and Margreet Honig. In the spring of 2020, the artist initiated a change of repertoire to mezzo- soprano in close consultation with the vocal expert Prof. Tamar Rachum, who will continue to coach her. Anna Lucia Richter has received numerous international awards, including the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
In the summer of 2021, she will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival, singing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni under Teodor Currentzis. At the opera house in her hometown of Cologne, she will make her debut under F.X. Roth, she will make her debut as Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. In the summer of 2021, she will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival, singing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni under Teodor Currentzis. At the opera house in her hometown of Cologne, she will make her debut under F.X. Roth, she will make her debut as Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel.
Great concert projects are also in the agenda for the 2021/2022 season: including Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony, with which she is particularly familiar, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä in Munich, Haydn’s Timpani Mass with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Manfred Honeck, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomanerchor Leipzig in the Thomaskirche Leipzig. The works of Johann Sebastian Bach are part of the artist’s core repertoire: a CD with songs from Schemelli’s Gesangbuch and the Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach with Georg Nigl, among others, was released on the alpha label.
