The Italian mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa, a graduate in Educational Sciences, trained at the Conservatorio Luca Marenzio in Brescia. After winning several international singing competitions, she made her international debut as Cherubino in I due Figaro by Mercadante at the 2011 Salzburg Festival under the baton of Riccardo Muti, a production she reprised at the Ravenna Festival, Teatro Real, and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Since then, she has performed in leading Italian opera houses as well as on stages in Barcelona, Bilbao, Las Palmas, Palma, Lausanne, Monte Carlo, Paris, Orange, Tel Aviv, Dallas, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, São Paulo, Salzburg, Bregenz, Vienna, and other cities. Her repertoire includes roles such as Carmen, Charlotte, Leonor, Rosina, Angelina, Adalgisa, Giovanna Seymour, Romeo, Dorabella, Orfeo, Nicklausse, Hänsel, Preziosilla, Fenena, and Suzuki.
She participated in the opening of the season at La Scala in Milan for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017) conducted by Chailly and has sung Verdi's Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Currentzis. She has also collaborated with conductors such as Campanella, Luisi, Mehta, Palumbo, Santi, Steinberg, and Thielemann, among others.
She made her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2014/15 season with Il barbiere di Siviglia and returned with Norma (2014/15) and Benvenuto Cellini (2015/16).