Following her second season as a member of the music staff with The Santa Fe Opera, Anna Smigelskaya joins  the faculty as Lecturer at the Yale School of Music. During her recent season in Santa Fe, Ms. Smigelskaya was selected as the organist for Tosca, while also preparing performances of scenes from La Bohème and Boris Godunov as part of the Apprentice Scenes program. Additionally, Ms. Smigelskaya served as the company’s primary Russian diction coach. Prior to her two-year fellowship with Yale Opera, other engagements have included the Merola Opera Program, Music Academy of the West, and Renée Fleming’s Song Studio. Ms. Smigelskaya has formerly held music staff positions at both the Manhattan School of Music and the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. She began her collegiate education in her native city of St. Petersburg at the Rimsky–Korsakov Music College, subsequently earning solo piano degrees from Sam Houston State University (B.M.) and University of Houston (M.M). As a student at the Manhattan School of Music, Ms. Smigelskaya completed her second Master of Music under the tutelage of Warren Jones.