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Sylvia Anderson was born in Denver, Colorado, and received her Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. She won a Fulbright Stipend for post graduate study at the Cologne, Germany, Conservatory and over the next years was honored for her singing on three continents with a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1973.
Miss Anderson spent 30 years singing in the major houses of Europe, South America and the US, including 26 roles with the San Francisco Opera, the Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, Columbus Opera and the New York City Opera. |
In her years abroad Miss Anderson was engaged at many opera houses such as the Frankfurt Opera, the Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart operas, the Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and Cologne Operas, Teatro Liceo, Barcelona, Teatro Verdi, Trieste, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna, the Rome Opera, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Bruxelles, Amsterdam Opera Stichting, Opera Toulouse, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Teatro Rio de Janeiro and many others.
Miss Anderson performed major roles with the Athens Festival of Greek Tragedy, the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival. Her most memorable roles include “Carmen,” “Octavian,” “Dorabella,” the “Countess” in Le Nozze di Figaro, “Fiordiligi,” in Cosi fan tutti, “Tosca,” “The Marshallin” in Der Rosenkavalier, “Venus” and “Elisabeth” in Tannhäuser, “Elsa,” in Lohengrin, “Kundry,” in Parsifal, and “Lady Macbeth of Msensk.” |
She joined the full-time faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1990 and opened the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute in 1992.
Her students have won major competitions, such as the Metropolitan Opera auditions, and have been accepted into prestigious young artist programs such as the Florida Grand Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera, and opera companies such as the Paris Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, Opera Lyon, the Karlsruhe Opera, the Baltimore Opera, the Bolshoi Opera, the Metropolitan and many others. |