Michel Anner was born and raised in Basel. After completing his Masters degree in Law at the university of Basel he worked as a legal assistant at the universities of Zurich and Lucerne where he wrote his Ph.D. At the same time, he studied opera singing with Marcel Boone at the Conservatory in Basel. He finished his studies with a Master of Performance in opera singing in 2013. He attended several Master classes of Thomas Hampson, Vesselina Kasarova, François LeRoux and Margret Honig et al. At the moment, he works on a regular basis with Elisabeth Glauser and Noëmi Nadelmann.

On stage, he has performed roles such as the Barber of Seville (Rossini), Count Almaviva (Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) or Eisenstein (The Bat, Strauss). He often performs in oratorios of Händel, Bach and Mendelssohn. He is also passionate about French and German art songs of the late 19th and early 20th century and occasionally performs traditional Yiddish songs.

In the last couple of years he also started producing his on shows. He initiated a series of chamber opera productions with the name Opéra Riche which premiered for the first time in 2017. And in January 2018 he produced Haydn’s oratorio Die Schöpfung as a sing-along. The performance had a specific graphic and light design and subtitled.