BELLINI V., VERDI G., PUCCINI G. SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO / A.L.Bogza, L.Vondráčková

VINCENZO BELLINI

1. Sogno d’infanzia (Anonymous) 6:44

2. Il fervido desiderio (Anonymous) 2:10

3. Dolente immagine di Fille mia (Anonymous) 3:03

4. Vaga luna, che inargenti (Anonymous) 3:18

5. Malinconia, Ninfa gentile (Ippolito Pindemonte) 1:37

6. Vanne, o rosa fortunata (Pietro Metastasio) 2:45

7. Per pieta, bell’idol mio (Pietro Metastasio) 3:10

8. Ma rendi pur contento (Pietro Metastasio) 2:20

GIUSEPPE VERDI

9. La seduzione (Luigi Balestra) 2:38

10. Il poveretto (Manfredo Maggioni) 2:43

11. Stornello (Anonymous) 2:03

12. Non t’accostar all’urna (Jacopo Vittorelli) 3:45

13. More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (Tommaso Bianchi) 2:01

14. In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli) 3:29

15. Il tramonto (Andrea Maffei) 2:56

16. Ad una stella (Andrea Maffei) 3:19

17. Brindisi (Andrea Maffei) 2:37

GIACOMO PUCCINI

18. Sole e amore (probably Giacomo Puccini) 1:43

19. Casa mia (Giacomo Puccini / Folksong) 0:48

20. Terra e mare (Enrico Panzacchi) 2:05

21. E l’uccellino (Renato Fucini) 1:33

22. Avanti Urania! (Renato Fucini) 1:52

23. Inno a Diana (Carlo Abeniacar) 2:50

24. Canto d’anime / Pagina d’album (Luigi Illica) 2:05

ANDA-LOUISE BOGZA soprano

LADISLAVA VONDRÁČKOVÁ piano

Recorded at Martinů Hall of the Lichtenstein Palace Prague, 21. and 22. IX. 2014, 11. and 12. I. 2016, 21. III. 2015

This CD presents songs of three Italian composers famous primarily in the world of opera. The compositions written for voice and piano show the influence of the opera genre. Booklet including texts.

ANDA-LOUISE BOGZA has performed in well-renowned opera houses throughout Europe and overseas. She has been successful as Aida at the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Opera Leipzig. She has made a big impression as Tosca at the festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Florence, at the Bavarian State Opera Munich (conductor Zubin Mehta), Frankfurt Opera, L’Opéra National de Bordeaux, New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Semperoper Dresden (conductor Fabio Luisi, stage director Johannes Schaaf), Arena di Verona (Tosca– conductor P. Morandi, stage director Hugo de Ana), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, at the National Operas of Bratislava, Prague, Bucharest and in Japan. She has sung the role of Katia Kabanova (Katia) in Tokyo (Suntory Hall), at the Janáček Opera, at the State Opera Prague and the role of Donna Anna at the Opera Marseille. She has also performed also Minnie in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, Manon Lescaut (Manon) in Teatro Filarmonico Verona (stage director Graham Vick) and Abigaille (Nabucco) at the Odeon Acropolis Theatre in Athens She made her successful debut at the Opéra National de Paris Bastille, Semperoper and Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Rusalka). She sang the title role of Rusalka at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (conductor G. Neuhold) and Santuzza at Puccini Festival – Italy. The repertoire of the artist also includes the part of Leonora (Verdi /Il Trovatore), which she sang at the Arena di Verona (stage director Franco Zeffirelli, conductor Marco Armiliato), Hamburg State Opera, Budapest State Opera, the Royal Opera Copenhagen, at the Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla (conductor Maurizio Arena), in Italy and the USA. She has also recorded a complete version of Il Trovatore (Leonora), released by Arte Nova Classics. Moreover a portrait of the artist with Italian arias has been released by the Arte Nova Classics and also under the label Decca Pavel Haas’opera Der Scharlatan (Rosina). Anda-Louise Bogza studied at the George Enescu Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Bucharest and Prague (piano, singing and harpsichord). The initial engagements brought the artist to the Prague State Opera and to the National Theatre Prague – houses in which she can be seen in the following roles: Katia (Katia Kabanová), Jenůfa (Jenůfa), Sina (Hans Krasa Verlobung im Traum), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Aida (Aida), Tosca (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), Rusalka, Desdemona (Otello), Turandot (Turandot), Maddalena (Andrea Chenier) Santuzza (Cavaleria Rusticana).