Anda-Louise Bogza

Romanian by birth, Anda-Louise Bogza made her career in Prague. She was born in Piatra Neamț in 1965, studied in Bucharest and then at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, training in piano and harpsichord as well as in singing, and she became a resident soprano of the Prague State Opera and the National Theatre: Aida, Abigaille, Amelia, Leonora, Tosca, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, Donna Anna and the Foreign Princess in Dvořák's Rusalka. Vienna, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Florence, Salzburg and Tokyo heard her as a guest. The Prague houses later named her an emerita soloist. She died in 2025, at sixty. Jenůfa and Káťa Kabanová belonged to her Czech repertoire, and Minnie in La fanciulla del West brought her a Thalia Award. The Berlin houses and the Arena di Verona were among her guest engagements, and she died on 13 December 2025.