American soprano Ann Toomey, whom Naples Daily News proclaimed “is a brilliant Floria 

Tosca…[whose] rich voice projects power that doesn't disintegrate under adversity” is enjoying a 

burgeoning and varied international career. In the 25/26 season, Ms. Toomey will make her 

debut as the title role in Madama Butterfly with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and perform the title 

role in Tosca with Florentine Opera.She also makes a celebrated return to her hometown company, Detroit Opera, singing the role of Ofglen in Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. With the BBC Symphony in Birmingham, she will appear 

as the soprano soloist in the critically acclaimed opera/rock pastiche Queen at the Opera, which 

she premiered at the Grange Festival in the UK in summer, 2025. Other concert appearances 

include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Santa Fe Symphony, and Mahler’s Symphony 

No. 2 with Northwest Florida Orchestra.

​

Highlights of recent seasons include the title role in Suor Angelica at the Berlin Philharmonic 

with Kirill Petrenko, Tosca with Sarasota Opera, Opera Naples and Livermore Valley Opera, 

Woglinde in Das Rheingold with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gujstavo Dudamel, the Una 

poenitentium in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville 

Symphony, Ortlinde in Act III of Die Walküre with Detroit Opera, Meg Page in Sir John in Love 

as well as a crossover recital at Bard SummerScape, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Dayton 

Opera, the Witch in Into the Woods with Tulsa Opera, Lady Billows in Albert Herring with the 

Princeton Festival, the title role in Die Kathrin with the Chicago Folks Operetta, Wolf Trap 

Opera for the title role in Susannah, at Lyric Opera of Chicago as Musetta in La bohème, First

Lady in Die Zauberflöte, the Fifth Maid in Elektra, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors 

with Opera San Antonio, and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Glyndebourne Festival, as well 

as the cover of Micaëla in Carmen. 

Ann Toomey is a former member of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions national semifinalist and Richard F. Gold Career 

Grant Recipient. A native of Detroit, Ann splits her time between Michigan, Chicago and Los 

Angeles