Anna Maria Vacca is a New York City based Mezzo Soprano. She has just completed the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera in 2025 covering the role of Ragonde in Le Comte Ory and performing Smeton from Anna Bolena and Ines from Il Trovatore in the Schwabacher Summer Concert at Merola. Anna Maria made her professional debut performing the role of Carmen in La Tragédie de Carmen with New Camerata Opera in New York City in fall 2024. Her previous credits include the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon,  Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera, L’Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Jean in Le Portrait de Manon, Ljubicia in Svadba, and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte. Her scene work includes Smeton from Anna Bolena, Ines from Il Trovatore, Mother from The Tales of Hoffman, Olga from Eugene Onegin, Leonora from La Favorita, Octavian from Der Rosenkavalier, Alisa from Lucia di Lammermoor, and Maddalena from Rigoletto. She received an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in the New York District in 2023 and 2024, received the Third Prize in the annual Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Vocal Competition at Manhattan School of Music and is currently a Semi-Finalist in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition. Anna Maria received her Masters Degree at Manhattan School of Music in May of 2024, she also completed her undergraduate degree with honors at MSM in spring of 2022. She is also an alumni of the Voice Fellowship program at Tanglewood Music Center and the Young Artist program at Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. Anna Maria studies under the tutelage of Jonathan Beyer.