Anna Lapkovskaja was born in Minsk and grew up in Munich. She studied opera and concert singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. She received her vocal training from Maria Janina Hake. Her development as a Lied interpreter was significantly shaped by her collaboration with the pianists Rudi Spring, Donald Sulzen and Tamás Kéry. She was a member of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (Live Music Now).

The singer is deeply committed to concert singing. Under Daniel Barenboim, she performed, among other works, Boulez’s Le visage nuptial. She sang Verdi’s Messa da Requiem and Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été under Sascha Goetzel, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Resurrection Symphony under Alexander Soddy. Concert engagements have taken her to, among others, the Elbphilharmonie (Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri) and the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, again with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. She has appeared in, among other works, Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, Rossini’s Stabat mater, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, and both of Bach’s major Passions.

She maintains a regular collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle, under whom she previously appeared as Varvara in Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová at the Staatsoper Berlin. Most recently, under his direction, she was heard with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall in London and the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez in Paris in Stravinsky’s Journey, with Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass in the Berliner Philharmonie, and as Grimgerde in Wagner’s Die Walküre in the Herkulessaal Munich with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, she celebrated her role debut as Dalila in Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila under the baton of Thomas Guggeis. She also made her debut as Judith in Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the Opéra de Lyon. With the MDR Sinfonieorchester in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, she sang the title role in Bizet’s Carmen. In addition, she returned to the Berliner Staatsoper as Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto. As the First Norn, she made her house debut at the Teatro Real Madrid under Pablo Heras-Casado. Furthermore, she appeared in the new Ring cycle at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, as well as in the Dresden Ring at the Semperoper, both under the direction of Christian Thielemann. Most recently, she made her debut as Waltraute in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

Anna Lapkovskaja has guested at several leading opera houses and festivals, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bayreuth Festival, and the BBC Proms.

She has worked with directors such as Harry Kupfer, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Peter Sellars, Andrea Breth, Robert Carsen and Damián Szifron.