Ana Maria Labin grew up in Switzerland and won First Prize at the inaugural Swiss competition, Concours Ernst Haefliger.
Upon graduating from the International Opera Studio of the Opernhaus Zurich she was invited to the Opera de Montpellier where she sang Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Cupidon in Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers and Ines in Donizetti's La Favorita. Further engagements included Juliette in Der Graf von Luxenburg at Mörbisch Festival, Celia in Mozart's Lucio Silla, staged by Günter Kremer, conducted by Adam Fischer and Dennis Russel Davies at the Mannheimer Mozartsommer, Clarice in Il mondo della luna under Julia Jones and Erste Dame under Lawrence Foster it the Théậtre du Châtelet Paris and under Alexander Soddy at the Bayerischer Staatsoper München.
Ana Maria Labin made her début at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Valencienne in Die Lustige Witwe in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi under the baton of Asher Fisch. Her opera engagements have also included Zerlina in Don Giovanni in the Opernfestspielen St Margarethen, Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.
In the baroque repertoire Ana Maria Labin has performed such roles as Manto in Agostino Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe under Thomas Hengelbrock at the Schwetzingen Festival and the soprano part in Purcell's King Arthur by Corinne and Gilles Bénizio (alias Shirley & Dino) under Hervé Niquet with Le Concert Spirituel at the Festival of Radio France in France and Japan. Recently she gave her début in Holland singing the title role of La Giuditta by Scarlatti alongside Michael Chance. In Autumn 2011 she will sing Armida in Robert Carsen’s production of Händel’s Rinaldo Glyndebourne on Tour under Laurence Cummings.
Ana Maria Labin’s concert engagements have taken her to the Vienna Konzerthaus performing Haydn’s Il ritorno di Tobia, and Haydn’s Creation and The Seasons in the Congress Innsbruck, the Philharmonie in Luxembourg and the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic under Adam Fischer. Other concert engagements have included a tour to Italy and Turkey with the English Concert under Harry Bickett singing Vivaldi’s motet In furore iustissimae irae and arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Rinaldo.
Beside her concert repertoire, which includes works like Händels Alexander’s Feast, Galatea in Acis und Galatea, Brahms Requiem und Pergolesis Stabat Mater, she sang several works by contemporary composers, as a song cycle by Richard Dubugnon at the Festival Présences of Radio France under the musical direction of Alain Altinoglu, and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III and other concerts under David Zinman at the Zurich Tonhalle. She returned to the Festival Présences of Radio France for the world premiere of a work by Dominique Lemaître with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under the batton of Daniel Kawka.
