Anda-Louise Bogza

Guest performances have been taking Anda-Louise Bogza to the major renowned opera houses in Europe and overseas. She was very successful as Aida at the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Leipzig. She made a big impression as Tosca in Italy at the festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the Bavarian State Opera Munich (conductor Zubin Mehta), Frankfurt Opera, L’Opéra National de Bordeaux, New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, at the State Semperoper Dresden (2009, conductor Fabio Luisi), the National Operas of Bratislava, Prague, Bucharest and in Japan. She sang Katia Kabanova (Katia) in Tokyo (Suntory Hall), at the Janáček Opera and State Opera Prague and as Donna Anna at the Opera Marseille. In 2007-2008 she performed Minnie in Pucinni’s La Fanciulla del West. She made her successful debut at the Opéra National de Paris Bastille and Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Rusalka) and in 2008 she sang the title role of Rusalka in Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma.  The repertoire of the Rumanian-born artist also includes the part of Leonora (Il Trovatore), which she sang at the Hamburg State Opera, the Budapest State Opera, the Royal Opera Copenhagen, at the Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla (conductor Maurizio Arena), in Italy and USA. She also recorded a complete version of Il Trovatore (Leonora), released at Arte Nova Classics. Moreover a portrait of the artist with Italian arias was released at Arte Nova Classics and under the label Decca Pavel Haas’opera Der Scharlatan (Rosina). In summer 2009 she sang Tosca in Arena di Verona (conductor – Giorgio Morandi, stage director – Hugo de Ana), and in August 2010 she made a comeback to Arena di Verona as Leonora (Il trovatore; conductor – Marco Armiliato, stage director – Franco Zeffirelli).

Anda-Louise Bogza studied at the George Enescu Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Bucharest and Prague (piano, singing and harpsichord).  First engagements brought the young soprano to the Prague State Opera and National Theatre Prague, two houses where she can be seen in numerous roles such as Jenůfa, Katia Kabanova), Sina (Hans Krasa Verlobung im Traum), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Aida, Tosca, Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Lisa (Pique Dame), Minnie (La Fanciulla del West), Manon (Manon Lescaut), Abigaille (Nabucco).  In 1994 she won the First Prize and the Prize of the Audience at the Vienna International Singing Competition. In 2008 she received the “Thalia Prize 2007” for the role of Minnie in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West.

Under the soprano’s concert engagements her performances at the Musikvereinssaal Vienna (Verdi: Requiem, Schubert: Mass Es dur, Haydn: Jahreszeiten), in 2008 – Festpielhaus Salzburg – Mozarteum Orchestra (Verdi: Requiem), Royal Albert Hall London (Dvořák: The Spectre’s Bride), Brucknerhaus Linz (Janáček: Glagolitic Mass), Liederhalle Stuttgart (Rachmaninov: The Bells), Amphitheatre Madrid (Beethoven: IX. Symphony), Czech Philharmonic Prague (Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Mahler: II., V. Symphony, Martinů: Gilgamesh, Verdi: Requiem), Bucharest Radio Hall (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem), Châtelet Paris, the Opera House Nice, at the National Concert Hall Dublin, Riga, Tokyo, Taipei with renowned orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra London, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig or Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra.

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