Dora Award winner Annie Ramos has established herself as a versatile performer in oratorio, opera, musical theatre and contemporary opera. Annie gained recognition in the musical theatre and operetta with roles such as Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Elsie in The Yeomen of the Guard, Maria in West Side Story and Cosette in Les Misérables. Other engagements include The Sound of Music with The Grand Theatre, Drayton Entertainment and the Vancouver Arts Club and The Pearl Fishers with Vancouver Opera. Her numerous concert and oratorio performances include WA Mozart’s Requiem, Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Johannes Brahms’ Requiem, Gioacchino Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony N4. Among her other treasured performances are Princess Tuptim in The Stratford Festival of Canada’s production of The King and I; Goddess Diana in Shakespeare’s Pericles; Sydney in the National Arts Centre production of Abigail Richardson’s Dora Mavor Award-winning Sanctuary Song; and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro. Annie’s Koerner Hall début was as soprano soloist in JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. She also performed alongside the Nathaniel Dett Chorale at the Glenn Gould Foundation’s tribute honouring the legendary soprano Jessye Norman and appeared in the world première of the oratorio, Hosea, at Koerner Hall. Annie, who is no stranger to contemporary opera, also sang in RUR: Torrent of Light with Tapestry Opera, for which she received a Dora Award for Outstanding Ensemble and débuted in the world première of Afarin Mansouri’s Zuleykha at the Toronto Summer Music Festival.