These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Ann Toomey.

American soprano Ann Toomey is a former member of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions national semifinalist, and a 2019 Richard F. Gold Career Grant Recipient. She made her European debut at the Berlin Philharmonie, performing the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

Highlights of the immediate past and current season include Woglinde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Nashville Symphony, Meg Page in Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love as well as a crossover recital at Bard SummerScape, Mrs. Lovett in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Dayton Opera, the Mother in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors with OPERA San Antonio, and First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Glyndebourne Festival.

In recent seasons, Toomey sang the title role of Puccini’s Tosca with Sarasota Opera, Opera Naples, and Livermore Valley Opera and returned to Wolf Trap Opera to perform the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah.

Toomey is a native of Detroit and currently lives in Chicago.