The Italian mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa, who holds a degree in Educational Sciences, trained at the Luca Marenzio Conservatory in Brescia. After winning several international singing awards, she made her international debut as Cherubino in I due Figaro by Mercadante at the Salzburg Festival in 2011 under the baton of Riccardo Muti, a production she reprised at the Ravenna Festival, Teatro Real, and Colón in Buenos Aires. Since then, she has performed at major Italian opera houses, as well as on stages in Barcelona, Lausanne, Monte Carlo, Paris, Orange, Tel Aviv, Dallas, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Salzburg, Bregenz, and Vienna, among other cities, in roles such as Carmen, Rosina, Angelina, Adalgisa, Giovanna Seymour, Romeo, Dorabella, Orfeo, Nicklausse, Hänsel, Fenena, and Suzuki.
She participated in the opening of La Scala's season for two consecutive years (2016 and 2017), conducted by Chailly, and performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by 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).