Anda-Louise Bogza
Anda-Louise Bogza (born February 21, 1965) is a celebrated Romanian opera soprano. In 1994, she won both the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Vienna International Singing Competition. In 2007, she was honored with the Thalia Award. Biography. Born in Piatra Neamț, Anda-Louise Bogza studied music at the George Enescu Conservatory in Iași, the National University of Music Bucharest, and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (piano, singing, and harpsichord). She began her career performing at the State Opera and the National Theatre in Prague. She remains committed to both of  those houses to this day. Among the roles which she has portrayed in Prague are Abigaille in "Nabucco", Amelia in "Un ballo in maschera", Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni", Desdemona in "Otello", Elisabetta in "Don Carlo", Giorgetta in "Il Tabarro" Katerina in "Káťa Kabanová", Leonora in "Il Trovatore", Lisa in "Pique Dame", Minnie in "La Fanciulla del West", Sina in Hans Krása's "Verlobung im Traum", and the title roles in "Aida", "Jenůfa", "Manon Lescaut", "Tosca", and "Turandot". Bogza maintains an active international career as a freelance artist. She has sung Aida at the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin  State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Leipzig Opera. She has portrayed Tosca at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Bavarian State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, the New Israeli Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, the Slovak National Theatre, in Japan, the Romanian National Opera, and at the Salzburg Festival. Another signature role, Leonora in "Il Trovatore", has brought her to the stages of the Hamburg State Opera, the Hungarian State Opera, the Royal Danish Theatre, the Teatro de la Maestranza, and to opera houses in the United States. She has also sung at Suntory Hall in  Tokyo and Opéra de Marseille. In 2005 she made her first appearance at the Opéra National de Paris in the title role of Dvořák's "Rusalka". Bogza currently resides in the Czech Republic. In the 2009–2010 season she was scheduled to sing Donna Anna and Aida in Prague and Abigaille at the National Theatre Brno. Repertoire. Bogza's repertoire includes the following: