Anna Krikheli, born in 2000 in Moscow, began her musical training at the Academic Music College of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied from 2016 to 2020 and gained her first stage experiences.
In the summer of 2025, the soprano completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the class of KS Prof. Andreas Schmidt. In the same year, she began her master’s studies there in the class of Melanie Maennl.
Since April 2022, Anna Krikheli has been a scholarship holder of the association Live Music Now Munich, performing over 30 solo concerts in senior residences in Munich and the surrounding area as part of this engagement.
She made her operatic debut on April 28, 2022, as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Reaktorhalle of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In July of the same year, she was awarded a scholarship by the German Stage Association, granted by the Bavarian State Association.
In the summer of 2023, she received a scholarship from the Orlandus Lassus Foundation for exceptionally talented musicians and appeared as Konstanze in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Kammeroper Munich.
In the 2024/2025 season, she sang the title role in Franz von Suppé’s operetta Die schöne Galathée in a production and adaptation by Markus Everding at the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich. In the final year of her bachelor’s studies, she also performed as Belinda (Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell) and as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart) on the stage of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
In April 2025, Anna Krikheli made her role debut as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto in a production by Opera Incognita in Munich and Dorfen.
In the winter of 2025, she debuted as Adele (Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus) in a concert production with the Stadtkapelle Neusäß. On January 11, 2026, she performed with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in the New Year’s Concert at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.