Anna Leese is a New Zealand born soprano opera singer based in Tuscany. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 2006, as understudy for the part of Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's La boh�me. She returned to sing the part in her own right in 2008. She graduated and earned multiple prizes at the University of Otago, plus the 2002 Mobil Song Quest and the Sydney McDonalds Aria before moving to London to study toward a graduate diploma in Opera at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. She performed at Op�ra Les Azuriales Festival at Cap Ferat in 2007 and sang solo arias by Mozart, Gounod, Bizet, Dvo?�k, Puccini and 'Cara la mia fiamma' from Adriano in Siria by J C Bach in Seillans and Mons in the Var, France at the 2007 Musique-Cordiale Festival. Other Covent Garden engagements in 2007 were as Micaela in Carmen and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2008, she sang as Musetta in La boh�me at Covent Garden. 

March 7th, 1981 in Napier (Age 43)