The Albanian-Belgian soprano is at home at some of the most renowned stages, such as the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and the Bregenzer Festspiele Festival.

She debuted Madama Butterfly (Puccini) at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent in Belgium in September 2024, stage directed by Mariano Pensotti.

Madame Bovary world premiere opera in the title role at Théâtre de la Monnaie in april 2025 composed by Harold Noben, directed by Debora Waldman, stage directed by Michael de Cock and Carme Portacelli.

She performed Bovary in May 2025 at Théâtre Amandiers Nanterre in Paris and she will perform it again in July 2026 for Festival Grec, performing at Teatro National Catalan in Barcelona.

She performed in june 2025 at the Opera of Tirana Teatri Kombetar i Operas dhe Baletit.

For the 2023/2024 season she performed the role of Lady Macbeth (Verdi) and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung under the musical direction of Daniel Carter and stage director Neil Barry Moss.

She began her varied education by studying violin (University of Tirana) and singing at the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam, which she continued at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Granada. She also earned a master’s degree in violin and singing from the Conservatoire Supérieur Royal of Brussels, Belgium.

One of the highlights of her career was the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor stage director by Carme Portacelli, under the musical direction of Ouri Bronchti with the orchestra of Théâtre de la Monnaie, with whom she went on tour in Belgium, Spain, France and Amsterdam in 2023.

Ana Naqe appeared as Dulcinea/Aldonza in L’Homme de la Mancha (Wasserman, Leigh, Darion) between 2018 and 2021 a production of Théâtre de la Monnaie and KVS (revived at the Théâtre du Châtelet).

In summer 2022 she stepped in for the leading role Stephana in Giordano’s Siberia at the Bregenzer Festspiele Festival, stage directed by Vasily Barkhatov.

In the summer of 2023, she performed as Medea (Cherubini) and Elettra (Mozart’s Idomeneo) at the Opera Kameralna Warsaw Tribute to Maria Callas gala as part of the 32nd Mozart Festival.

The soprano received critical acclaim for her interpretation of Klara Friis, the lead role in the opera We the Drowned at the Oerol Festival in the Netherlands and the Marstal Festival in Denmark. 

On the stage in Landestheater Coburg, was seen as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) .

Repertoire

OPERA

-Il Trittico Suor Angelica Puccini
-Il Trittico Georgetta Puccini
-Macbeth(performed) LadyMacbeth Verdi
-La Bohème Mimi Puccini
-Othello Desdemona Verdi
-Götterdämmerung (performed) Gutrune Wagner
-Die Lustige Witwe(performed) Hanna Glawari Lehar
-Butterfly (performed) Butterfly Puccini
-Il Trovatore (studied, not performed) Leonora Turandot
-Turandot Liù Puccini
-Siberia(as cover Bregenzer Festspiele) Stephana Giordano
-Don Carlo Elisabetha Verdi
-Die Tote Stadt Marietta Korngold
-Jenufa Jenufa Janacek
-Kata Kabanova Kata Kabanova Janacek
-Aida (performed with cuts Aida Verdi
-Simon Boccanegra Amelia Verdi
-Rusalka Rusalka Dvorak
-Rusalka Foreign Princess Dvorak
-La Wally Wally Catalani
-Le Villi Anna Puccini
-Faust Marguerite Gounod
-Eugene Onegin Tatyana Tchaikovsky
-Mahagonny Jenny Weill
-Nabucco(studied) Abigaille G.Verdi
-Falstaff Alice Ford G.Verdi
-Manon Lescaut Manon Puccini
-Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Katerina Izmailova Shostakovich
-Attila Odabella Verdi
-La Forza del Destino Leonora Verdi
-Wozzeck Marie Berg
-Arabella Arabella Strauss
-Der Rosenkavalier Marschallin Strauss
-Lohengrin Elsa R.Wagner
-Tannhauser Elisabeth R.Wagner
-Valkyrie Sieglinde R. Wagner
-Der Fliegende Holländer Senta R.Wagner
-Valkyrie Brünnhilde R.Wagner