Quickly developing into dramatic repertoire like Wagner’s Brangäne und Fricka, Anna’s repertoire still ranges from Baroque through Donizetti to Strauss and Wagner as well as to modern operas from Henze and Benjamin.

In the season 2025/26 Anna will make her debut as Carmen at the Sofia Opera House, as Hàta (The Bartered Bride) at the Wiener Staatsoper, as Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), as Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) and as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Volkstheater Rostock. Furthermore Anna will return to the Arena di Verona Festival 2026 as Fenena (Nabucco) and as Flora (La Traviata) in a new production that will open the season. On the concert stage she will sing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Singakademie zu Berlin at the Berliner Dom, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn under the baton of Dirk Kaftan and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Teatro Filarmonico Verona. Anna will be also soloist of the New Year’s concerts of Neue Philharmonie Westfalen.

From 2022–25, Anna Werle made notable debuts including Fenena (Nabucco) at the Arena di Verona Opera Festival (Pinchas Steinberg), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) at NCPA Beijing (Marc Minkowski), and 3.Maid (Elektra) at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona (Michael Balke). She appeared as mezzo-soprano soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at Opernhaus Stuttgart, and sang Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at Sofia Opera (Constantin Trinks), Teatro Petruzzelli Bari (Marc Piollet), and Oper Leipzig (cover). Other appearances include 2.Angel/Marie (Written on Skin) at Deutsche Oper Berlin (Marc Albrecht), La Cieca (La Gioconda, cover) at Osterfestspiele Salzburg (Antonio Pappano), Adalgisa (Norma) at Opera på Skäret, Waltraute (Die Walküre) at Opernhaus Zürich (Gianandrea Noseda), and Angelina (La Cenerentola) at Sofia Opera.

Further debuts include Charlotte (Werther), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), and Prinz Orlofsky at Theater Regensburg. She also returned to Staatsoper Stuttgart as Fricka (cover) and Rossweiße (Die Walküre) under Cornelius Meister, and to Tiroler Festspiele Erl as Siegrune (Die Walküre).

Anna has worked with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda, Cornelius Meister, Constantin Trinks, Marc Albrecht, Marc Minkowski, Marc Piollet, Thomas Guggeis, Ivan Fischer, David Crescenzi, Pavel Baleff, Ariane Matiakh, Erik Nielsen, Marcus Bosch and Rossen Gergov. And she’ve worked with stage directors such as Oliver Mears, Andreas Homoki, Brigitte Fassbaender, Yannis Kokkos, Nicola Raab, Stephan Kimmig, Arila Siegert, Valentin Schwarz, Hinrich Horstkotte, Axel Köhler and Marco Štorman.
Anna Werle is also a sought after concert and Lied singer. Her vast repertoire ranges from Bach Oratorios to Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Verdi. Recitals and concerts led her to the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Berliner Dom, the Yuri Bashmet Festival during the Olympic games in Sochi, the Rbb-Sendesaal, the Festival Klosterneuburg, to a concert tour as contralto soloist of J.S.Bach’s Missa si minore under the baton of Hellmuth Rilling in Italy (Teatro San Carlo Genova, Auditorium Manzoni Bologna, Teatro comunale Vicenza, Teatro comunale Siena, Castel S’Elmo Napoli). She regularly performs Mahler’s orchestral songs like Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Das Lied von der Erde as well as Biblische Lieder by Antonin Dvorak, Wagner’s Wesendoncklieder and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.
Anna Werle studied singing with Robert Gambill at the University of Arts in her hometown Berlin. In addition she attended master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Montserrat Caballé, Grace Bumbry, Lorenzo Regazzo and Hedwig Fassbender. She has won numerous competitions including Concorso Bellini and International Concert Competition of VdKC and has been finalist in the Montserrat Caballé Competition, the Richard Strauss Competition and the Marie Kraja Competition.