Ana Maria Labin was born in Bucharest and raised in Switzerland where she is a citizen. She speaks fluent English, French, German, Italian and Rumanian.

Miss Labin made her début at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as Valencienne Die lustige Witwe (director Pier Luigi Pizzi; conductor Asher Fisch) and in Zurich she appeared as Euridice Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (director Serge Honegger). Other operatic engagements have included Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte at the Théatre du Châtelet, Paris and at the Opéra de Montpellier, Cupidon Orphée aux enfers and Ines La favorita at the Opéra de Montpellier, Manto in Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe (conductor Thomas Hengelbrock) at the Schwetzingen Festival and the named soprano soloist in a new production of Purcell’s King Arthur by Corinne and Gilles Bénizio (alias Shirley & Dino) with Le Concert Spirituel (conductor Hervé Niquet) at the Festival of Radio France and at the Opéra de Montpellier and in Japan. This production was broadcast on French Television and released on DVD.

Miss Labin has a busy concert diary and performances have included a song cycle by Richard Dubugnon at the Festival Présences of Radio France (conductor Alain Altinoglu) and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III plus concerts under David Zinman and Christopher Hogwood at the Zurich Tonhalle. She returned to the Festival Présences for the world premiere of La Chevelure de Bérénice by Dominique Lemaître with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI (conductor Daniel Kawka).

Ana Maria Labin recently made her débuts at the Vienna Konzerthaus as Sara in Haydn’s Il ritorno di Tobia, and in the Congress Innsbruck and the Philharmonie in Luxembourg singing Die Schöpfung, all with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic under Adam Fischer. She also toured Italy and Turkey with the English Concert under Harry Bickett singing both Vivaldi’s motet In furore iustissimae irae and arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Rinaldo.

At the Jennersdorf Summer Festival in Austria she performed the role of Klara Die Welt auf dem Mond (Il mondo della luna) by Haydn (conductor Julia Jones).

Future engagements include Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten at the opening of the Eisenstadt Festival under Adam Fischer with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic, Bach Mass in B minor with Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Andre Fischer in Tonhalle, Zurich and Alexander’s Feast with the Tonhalle Orchestra, her débuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte and at the Opéra de Paris as Valencienne Die lustige Witwe and with Glyndebourne On Tour as Armida Rinaldo.