BIOGRAPHY
Meet Anne.
Anne Slovin, soprano, is a versatile performing artist who most recently sang the role of Miriam in Lee Hoiby’s The Scarf with South Bend Lyric Opera and a concert of 18th-century Jewish music with the Raritan Players in New York City. She sang the soprano solo in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Eve in Haydn’s The Creation at the University of Notre Dame in 2024.
Anne has also distinguished herself as an interpreter of contemporary opera, having originated the title role in Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank in 2023 and performed the role of Clara in the collegiate premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life in 2017 at the IU Jacobs School of Music. In 2015, she created the role of Mica Segal in The Property, a klezmer opera with music by Wlad Marhulets and a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other favorite roles in opera and operetta include Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Micäela in La Tragédie de Carmen. Not one to box herself into a single genre, Anne is also an active cabaret performer who debuted a solo show at Don’t Tell Mama NYC in 2019 and participated in the St. Louis Cabaret Conference in 2022. She made her South Bend Symphony Debut in December 2024 as part of their holiday pops program, Home for the Holidays.
Currently a doctoral candidate at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, Anne’s dissertation research proposes a disability-informed approach to voice pedagogy, specifically focusing on how instructors can infuse disability representation into a tradition pedagogy curriculum at the collegiate level. She has presented this research at the London Conference in Critical Thought, and will take it to the OHMI Conference on Music Performance and Disability and the International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) in 2025. Anne is also the co-editor, with Dr. Katherine Meizel at Bowling Green State University, of Disability and Accessibility in the Voice Studio, an upcoming open access compilation of scholarly writing, testimonials and video demonstrations to help make voice teaching more inclusive of all kinds of disability.
Anne’s research interests also extend outward to musical theater scholarship. She recently presented at the StageStruck! conference at the Great American Songbook Foundation about nostalgia in the film musicals of Molly Picon, Barbra Streisand and Rachel Bloom, and her work examining the voice and career of Ethel Merman through the lens of trauma theory will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Trauma in 2025. Anne has served as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Voice at the University of Notre Dame since August 2023. She teaches applied voice to undergraduate majors, music and musical theater minors, and graduate students in the Sacred Music department, as well as classes on voice pedagogy, voice science, and 20th-century vocal literature. In summer 2024, she was chosen to participate in the NATS Intern Program at Florida State University, where she worked with mentor Melissa Foster of Northwestern University.
“...Slovin brought an appealing youthful vivacity and a bright soprano to the role of Mica."
- CHICAGO CLASSICAL REVIEW