ANA NAQE
Soprano
“At the heart of this performance is the passionate performance of soprano Ana Naqe, who devotes her entire body and mind to delving into the multitude of emotions of her character. The performance is impressive.”
“Ana Naqe brings a range of dramatical and lyrical elements to the role of Emma. She has to carry the evening almost single-handedly. Her expressive spectrum, ranges from fragility and depression to almost puccini-esque elation.”
The Albanian-Belgian soprano is at home on some of the world’s most renowned stages, such as the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and the Bregenzer Festspiele Festival.
Her title role debut in the world premiere of Harold Noben’s Bovary at Théâtre La Monnaie in Brussels in 2025 earned her rave reviews across Europe. During the 2023/2024 season she sang the title role of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth by Verdi at the Landestheater Coburg under the musical direction of Daniel Carter and stage director Neil Barry Moss. She sang the title role of Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly (Puccini) at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium in September and October 2024, staged by Mariano Pensotti.
In a newly composed opera Barzakh by composer Osama Abdulrasol she sang the title role at Opera Vlaanderen Ghent conducted by Zoe Zeniodi, staged by Thomas Bellinck. One of the highlights of her career was the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in the Carme Portacelli production, under the musical direction of Ouri Bronchti with the orchestra of Théâtre de la Monnaie, with whom she went on tour in Belgium, Spain, France and Amsterdam in 2023 and she performed again in Paris in 2025.
Ana Naqe appeared as Dulcinea/Aldonza in L'Homme de la Mancha (Wasserman, Leigh, Darion) between 2018 and 2021 a production of Théâtre de la Monnaie and KVS (revived at the Théâtre du Châtelet). The soprano received critical acclaim for her interpretation of Klara Friis, the lead role in the opera We the Drowned at the Oerol Festival in the Netherlands and the Marstal Festival in Denmark. In summer 2022 she stepped in for the leading role Stephana in Giordano's Siberia at the Bregenzer Festspiele Festival.
In the summer of 2023, she performed as Medea (Cherubini) and Elettra (Mozart's Idomeneo) at the Opera Kameralna Warsaw Tribute to Maria Callas gala as part of the 32nd Mozart Festival. On the stage in Coburg, Ana Naqe was seen asLady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth, as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) and Gutrune (Götterdämmerung).
Ana Naqe began her varied education by studying violin (University of Tirana) and singing at the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam, which she continued at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Granada. She also earned a master's degree in violin and singing from the Conservatoire Supérieur Royal of Brussels, Belgium.
