Glinka Chopin, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff - Songs / A.L.Bogza soprano, M.Javorček

Chopin - Gdzie lubi (What She Likes), Op. 74 No. 5, Melodia (Melody), Op. 74 No. 9, Moja pieszczotka (My Sweetheart), Op. 74 No. 12, Pieóni i piosnki (Polish Songs), Op. 74, Pierscien (The Ring), Op. 74 No. 14, Piosnka litewska (Lithuanian Song), Op. 74 No. 16, Smutna rzeka (The Sad River), Op. 74 No. 3, Zyczenie (The Maiden's Wish), Op. 74 No. 1, Dvořák - Gypsy Melodies (1-7), Op. 55 (B104), Glinka - A Farewell to Saint Petersburg, Do Not Tempt Me Needlessly, I am here, Inezilla, Kak sladko s toboyu mnye bits (How sweet it is to be with you), Ne govori, chto serdtsu bol'no (Say not that it grieves the heart), Ne iskushay menya bez nuzhdi, The Poor Singer, V krovi gorit ogon zhelania (The Fire of Longing Burns in My Heart), Venetsianskaya noch, Zhavronok 'The Lark', Rachmaninoff: A dream, Op. 8 No. 5, Do not believe me, friend, Op. 14 No. 7, How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7, I fell in love, to my sorrow, Op. 8 No. 4, Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5, Rachmaninoff - Songs (1-6), Op. 8, Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6, Lieder from Op. 6, Tchaikovsky - Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1, Otchevo? (Why?), Op. 6 No. 5, Romances (1-6), Op. 16, Romances (1-7), Op. 47, Was I not a blade of grass?, Op. 47 No. 7, Zabit tak skoro (So soon forgotten)

Anda-Louise Bogza soprano

Marcel Javorček piano, Galina Aleshkevich piano

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).