Praised for her “distinct canvas of vocal colors” (operawire), soprano Anneliese Klenetsky is quickly making a name for herself in the music world. Her versatile full-lyric voice and musical intelligence has allowed her to explore and perform a wide range of repertoire, spanning Baroque through 21st-century music. 

In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Klenetsky made her role debut as Alcina in Handel’s Alcina with Yale Opera. In addition, she performed Tatyana in the Act III final duet of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, as well as Prima Donna in the Prologue to Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, both directed by Chuck Hudson. She also joined the Ravinia Steans Music Institute for her third year as a fellow, where she had the special privilege of performing with Lee Musiker in his Sunday in the Park with Sondheim concert. This season, Anneliese is slated to sing Female Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and cover the leading role of Roxanne Cross in Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto at Aspen Music Festival, where she will coach with renowned soprano Renée Fleming. She is also excited to be a finalist in the Butler Opera International Voice Competition. 

Most recently, Anneliese was the North Carolina district winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. This past December she completed her Master’s of Musical Arts at Yale School of Music, where she was heard singing scenes in the title role of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Chimène in Massanet’s Le Cid with the Yale orchestra under the baton of Louis Lohraseb.

In 2020, she was one of 10 singers chosen to participate in Renee Fleming’s prestigious SongStudio at Carnegie Hall, where she participated in masterclasses with Renee Fleming and Gabriel Kahane, and also had the opportunity to work with Craig Terry, Javier Arrebola, Hartmut Höll, J.J. Penna, and Gerald Martin Moore.

As a 2019 Music Academy of the West fellow, Anneliese was one of the youngest singers to perform the lead role of Ada in the West Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain, directed by James Darrah and conducted by Daniela Candillari. There, she worked the role with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and tenor Jay Hunter Morris, both of whom were in the original world premiere. During her summer at the festival, she participated in a masterclass with James Darrah and performed scenes as Ophélie in Thomas’ Hamlet and Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. Anneliese competed in the 2019 Marilyn Horne Competition and had the privilege to work with Marilyn Horne during her time there. 

Anneliese graduated from The Juilliard School with her Master’s of Music and Bachelor’s of Music under the tutelage of Sanford Sylvan. A high point of her Juilliard studies, Ms. Klenetsky performed the lead role of Governess in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, conducted by Steven Osgood and directed by John Giampietro. Other lead roles included Clori in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno under Paul Agnew, La Bergère in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges under conductor Emmanuel Villaume and Amaranta in Haydn’s La Fedeltà Premiata under Teddy Poll. She also sang scenes from La Traviata as Violetta, Puccini’s La Bohéme as Musetta and Verdi’s Rigoletto as Gilda. 

Anneliese was honored to be the soprano soloist in Handel’s Laudate Pueri Dominum (HWV 237) at Alice Tully, where she joined renowned Belgian early music ensemble Vox Luminis. Other notable concert work includes Handel’s Tra le Fiamme (HWV 170) and Bach’s Mein Herze Schwimmt Im Blut (BWV 199), both performed with Juilliard415. Ms. Klenetsky was also featured in Steven Blier’s NYFOS presentation of “Kurt Weill’s Berlin.”  Upon graduating from Juilliard’s master’s program, she was awarded a generous Novick Career Advancement Grant. 

As part of her commitment to expanding musical frontiers, Ms. Klenetsky has debuted a number of contemporary compositions, including the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe’s Oroborium at Alice Tully Hall with The New Juilliard Ensemble under Joel Sachs. She performed the New York premiere of James Primosch’s A Sibyl at the Museum of Modern Art, also under Joel Sachs, and Let Them Eat Cake by Trey Makler at National Sawdust. Ms. Klenetsky also debuted the world premiere of Theo Chandler's Songs for Brooches at Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Milarsky. 

Anneliese has enjoyed a long-standing collaborative relationship with composer Jake Landau, and has been honored to premiere his compositions Streetlight, a song cycle about a reverse-love story set to lyrics by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell; You Always Take Vacations, a song cycle for voice and vocoder; and Les danseuses de Pigalle, a ballet inside a crime scene featuring a musical blend of smoky cabaret and live-processed electronics at New York Live Arts.   

Ms. Klenetsky has been featured in numerous masterclasses with highly regarded musicians, including Patricia Racette, John Fischer, Dalton Baldwin, Joan Dornemann, Sherrill Milnes,  Plácido Domingo and a live-streamed masterclass with Emmanuel Villaume.

During her time at Juilliard, Ms. Klenetsky was selected to participate in two special residency programs, one with Patricia Racette and the other with Renata Scotto. 

She began her artistic and musical journey in her hometown of Edison, New Jersey, with teacher Li-Chan Maxham. In 2012, she was accepted into the prestigious Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she studied with Lorraine Nubar and was the recipient of grants from The Gerda Lissner Foundation and The George London Foundation. During her two years with the program, Anneliese made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony and was a finalist in The National YoungArts Foundation, where she performed at the New World Center in Miami. There, she was nominated as a Presidential Scholar of the Arts. Ms.Klenetsky believes that artists are given a gift that demands to be shared as widely as possible. To that end, she was a Gluck Fellow at Juilliard for four years, which enabled her to bring music to audiences in hospitals, nursing homes, and other underserved communities.  

When Anneliese is not singing, she can be found silversmithing in her quaint studio in New Haven, Connecticut, where she specializes in sterling silver and turquoise heirloom jewelry. You can find her creations through her jewelry company, Blue Lady Silver Co.