Ms. Anamer Castrello
Lecturer of Voice
Praised by the Washington Post as "the richest and most expressive voice... Castrello has enough wattage to light a small town," mezzo-soprano Anamer Castrello, a native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, stands out as one of the most impressive and versatile artists and singers in the Washington, DC, area.
Ms. Castrello was an award-winner at the Gulf Coast Regional Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera. Other awards include The Washington Area Music Awards (WAMA) – Latino Best Female Vocalist – and the 1997 Operatic Singing Artist of the Year Award from the Institute of Puerto Rico in New York. She has sung numerous opera and zarzuela roles as well as cabaret and popular shows abroad and in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Of her portrayal of Estrelda in Sousa's El Capitán, Sorab Modi of Opera News wrote: "Ana Castrello was pert and vivacious… her singing always refined, her phrasing accomplished with finesse." Anamer participated in the International Opera Festival in Rome, Italy on 1998 playing Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. She has appeared with several opera companies and theaters including the Baltimore Opera, Opera Camerata of Washington, Shakespeare Theatre, Opera Americana, Maryland Opera Studio, Crittenden Opera Workshop, The Other Opera Company, GALA Hispanic Theater, Zarzuela Di Si, and the Singers Opera. She is one of the artists/singers of the IN Series, an innovative company that has been in Washington DC for twenty years offering high-quality, affordable productions of opera, cabaret and zarzuela, under the artistic and executive direction of Carla Hubner.
Ms. Castrello holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities with a concentration in Piano from the University of Puerto Rico, a Master of Arts degree in Music Education for Colleges and Universities from New York University and a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland at College Park.
