Lea-ann Dunbar

Soprano Lea-ann Dunbar begins the 2023/24 season as the Feldmarschallin in Richard Strauss’ "Der Rosenkavalier”at Staatstheater Cottbus. In early 2024 she then returns to the Semperoper Dresden, where she can be heard as Falke in a new production of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" under the baton of Christian Thielemann. She made her Dresden debut in 2023 in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen as Woglinde, the role with which she also made her Wagner debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 2022. At a young age Lea-ann developed a fascination for singing. Having grown up in a family of musicians, she studied voice at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA and then at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, before beginning her professional career as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. As an ensemble member at the