[4] Bishop's wife Sarah (née Lyon) died in June 1831, and Ann Rivière married him a month later, on 9 July; she was 21 and he 44.

On 28 March 1834 she was the principal soprano in the first English performance of Cherubini's Requiem in C.[6] In 1838 she participated in the chorus at the Coronation of Queen Victoria.

[5] In 1839 she appeared at the Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where Italian arias were performed in costume as "Dramatic Concerts",[4] alongside the singers Giulia Grisi, Manuel Garcia, Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Antonio Tamburini, Pauline Viardot and Luigi Lablache; and the pianists Sigismond Thalberg and Theodor Döhler.

[3] Bochsa became her manager and they toured in Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and other places in Europe.

[1] She had her greatest successes in operas by Rossini and Donizetti at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, where she became prima donna assoluta in 1843.

On 4 March 1866 en route from San Francisco to China, on the first leg of a world tour, her ship the Libelle was wrecked on Wake Island, at that time an uncharted coral atoll, and she and Schulz and the rest of her party were stranded there for three weeks.

[2][6][13][14] After a period of recovery she resumed her world tour, singing in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and Australia and London once again, before returning to New York.

[1][5] On 14 July 1873, at the personal invitation of Brigham Young, she gave the first concert at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.

[5] In 1875 she sang in Australia once more, then in Cape Town and other places in South Africa, on to Madeira and England, and back to New York.

[3] Anna Bishop Schulz died in New York in March 1884, aged 74, and was buried beside her son Augustus in St Paul's Lutheran Cemetery.