Anna Maria Vacca is a New York City based Mezzo Soprano. She will be joining Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program in the fall of 2026 at The Kennedy Center. She is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera in 2025, Tanglewood Music Center Voice Fellowship Program in 2024 and the Chautauqua Opera Young Artist program in 2022 and 2023. 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, Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Dido in Dido and Aeneas. Her scene work includes Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Smeton in Anna Bolena, Ines in Il Trovatore, Mother in The Tales of Hoffman, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Leonora in La Favorita, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Maddalena in 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 in 2024 and was a Semi-Finalist in the Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition in 2025. 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. Anna Maria studies under the tutelage of Jonathan Beyer.