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ALIZE

FRANCHESKA

ROZSNYAI

AMERICAN-HUNGARIAN
LYRIC THEATRE ARTIST
CLASSICAL SOPRANO
ACTOR
LIBRETTIST
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“...a superb voice.”  --Harrogate News

“...a showstopper...” --Artblog

“deliciously diva performances"

--I Care If You Listen

ABOUT

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PRESSKIT

  Alize Francheska Rozsnyai is a coloratura soprano and actor “displaying profound imagination and control” (Philadelphia Inquirer), building a diverse and exciting performance career as a classical soprano with a "superb voice" (Harrogate News), and acclaimed interpreter of new music, supplying "deliciously diva performances" (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN).

 

  In her September 2021's performances of Alcina REVAMPED, Alize "impresses as Morgana. She attacks the melismatic demands of “Tornami a vagheggiar” ("Come Back to Woo Me") with practiced ease and accentuates the besotted naiveté of her character..." (Broad Street Review).

   This season Alize makes her role debut as Frasquita in Carmen with with Boheme Opera Company, performs multiple roles in the World Premiere of Five Ways to Die with Experiments in Opera, in works by Del'Shawn Taylor, Jesse Gelaznik, Seong Ae Kim, and Jason Cady, debuts with St. Petersburg Opera as an Emerging Artist covering the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina, debut performances with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra in Arnold Schoenberg's Quartet No. 2 and Quirkhead by Nina Shekhar, and the continuation of Experiments in Opera's Five Ways To Die opera in development. She continues collaborations with composer Misha Dutka in a poignant opera about the life of Brandon Teena, Brandon's Song, creating the role of Teryn Gilchrist in a performance commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Rounding out 2024, Alize stars as the coquettish Miriam (formerly known as Yum-Yum) in A Philly Mikado! with Aurora Classical, as Serena in Of Fiercer Origins: with Alter Ego Chamber Opera, showcasing the Philadelphia premiere of A Pregnant Pause with music by Garth Baxter, set to Alize's original libretto, and curation of an evening-length performance containing two world-premiere songs set to text by Adrienne Rich, with music by Tori Lavan and Jorge Sosa, respectively. Finally, she debuts Joseph Canteloube's gorgeous orchestral settings of Chants d'Auvergne and an excerpt of Bellini's La Sonnambula, with with New City Sinfonia, San Diego.

 

   Recently, Alize triumped in the fierce role of Tybalt, in a gender-bending, immersive Romeo + Juliette (Gounod) production with Prismatic Arts Ensemble. She brought her original work and concept of an in-progress opera, Souls Unscreened, with music by Roger A. Martinez, to NYC and Philadelphia, for collaborative workshop performances with chamber ensemble, with Experiments in Opera, in which she performed the role of Erica. Alize returned to Hub City Opera to perform the role of Heather in her very own Phony, for which she served as librettist, collaborating alongside composer David Matthew Brown, in the Spring of 2023, after her debut with the same company last year as Serpina in La Serva Padrona

 

   Still admist the Covid-19 Pandemic, Alize appeared with Beth Morrison Projects in “when icarus fell, was there a splash?” by Maya Miro Johnson, performed with Contemporaneous Ensemble and conducted by Kamna Gupta, and National Sawdust, and at New Music on the Point, performing several world premieres alongside artists including Tony Arnold, and the Jack Quartet, and at SPLICE Festival in Kalamazoo, MI performing a set of world premieres and improvisational collaborative work.

 

     She performed as Katherine Hutchinson in The Silk City, a brand new work conducted by the composer
himself, Francesco Santelli, with Garden State Opera, and a World Premiere in two parts, Liebovar by Misha Dutka in the
role of Rivka with Opera Boheme NJ. Other recent engagements include her debut with Opera Fayetteville as Zina in Nico
Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Phyllis in Iolanthe at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, England, returning after
portraying Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, the world premiere and recording of Will Brobston’s Woven Images with ENA
Ensemble, and the lead role of Zohara in the world premiere of Meira Warshauer’s opera Elijah’s Violin at the Presidio of San
Francisco under the baton of Jonathan Khuner and Directed by Yefim Maizel. During the heart of the pandemic, Alize adapted Handel's Alcina REVAMPED into an English, LGBT fantastical production complete with electronics and instrumental reconfiguration, performing the role of Morgana, with Alter Ego Chamber Opera and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.


  Alize’s concert performances include performing Apparition for George Crumb himself in October of 2019, for his 90th
birthday at the Annenberg Center, Soprano Solos in Carmina Burana with the Cape Cod Symphony, at Carnegie Hall as
soprano soloist in Berio’s Sinfonia, and Pierrot Lunaire in her own unique English adaptation as requested by The Curtis
Institute
’s 20/21 Ensemble at the Kennedy Center. Other favorite performances include the arias of Königin der Nacht with
Den Nye Oper Orchestra, in Bergen, Norway, the Soprano Solos in Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts, a stylistic fusion of
opera and jazz to open Wilmington, Delaware’s Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, and as a guest recitalist in Saigon’s Performance Complex at the Soul Music and Performing Arts Academy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.


  A passionate interpreter of new music and atonal works, M. Rozsnyai covered the Title Role in the World Premiere of
Louis Karchin’s Jane Eyre with the Center for Contemporary Opera, created the role of Andy #1, in Andy: A Popera, a World
Premiere with Opera Philadelphia, reprising the work with the Seattle Symphony [Untitled 3] Series. She helped to create
several roles including Lila in Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain, and Silvana in Missy Mazzoli’s A Flourish of Green
workshop with Opera Philadelphia and the Mother in Errollyn Wallen’s Sabina Spielrein with the Center for Contemporary
Opera. Other favorite highlights include Delia in Il Viaggio a Reims with the Rossini Opera Festival, under the baton of the
late famed maestro, Alberto Zedda.


  Alize was honored to serve as an ArtistYear Fellow (Americorps) at South Philadelphia High School from 2015-
2017, during which she taught and produced two full-length musicals from the ground-up, Dreamgirls and The Wiz,
captivating attention, funding and revitalization for the Alma Matter of Mario Lanza and Marian Anderson which had fallen
to violence and a poor graduation rate. In opera, she has received accolades from many prestigious competitions such as AstralArtists, where she was a National Finalist, Career Bridges Grant, Palm Beach Opera Competition, Lotte Lenya Competition, American Traditions Competition, Early Music America, Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship, Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, Lois Alba Aria Competition, and is a recipient of a Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship in Voice.

 

     A joyful creator and collaborator, Alize is also a librettist and is the former lead singer-song writer and multi-instrumentalist with the band The Fancy Balloons. As a librettist, Alize was a finalist, along with composer collaborator Roger A. Martinez, for MassOpera’s NOW (New Opera Workshop), and the recipient of the Lolotte Gaucher Fellowship Award at Really Spicy Opera’s Aria Institute where she will continue her studies as librettist in the Spring of 2023. Several of her works including Potentialite, Phony, and her “boundary-pushing” (Broad Street Review) Alcina REVAMPED adaptation have all been performed. She recently completed the libretto for Garth Baxter’s A Pregnant Pause, his first chamber opera, and Phony will receive its second performance with Hub City Opera in Spring of 2023.Her recent engagements include the role of Zina in Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters with Opera Fayetteville, Soprano Soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Soprano Soloist in Mozart's Missa Solemnis under the baton of Gregory Geehern of the Princeton Festival, with PMSA, Nicole in Jason Cady's modulated synth-accompanied Candy Corn with Experiments in Opera in NYC, the role of Zohara in the world premiere of Meira Warshauer's Elijah's Violin at the Presidio of San Francisco, under the baton of Jonathan Khuner and direction by Yefim Maizel,  George Crumb's Apparition, performed for George himself, at the Annenberg Center to celebrate the composer's 90th birthday, and several more world premieres. In May 2021, Alize made her debut with Beth Morrison Projects in their Next Gen concert, performing Maya Miro Johnson's "when icarus fell, was there a splash?" under the baton of Kamna Gupta. September 2021, she makes her role debut as Morgana in Alcina REVAMPED with Alter Ego Chamber Opera.

   Alize is co-founder, a soprano performer and librettist with the Philadelphia-based chamber opera company  Alter Ego Chamber Opera, whose mission is to tell new stories and old stories in new ways, supporting the creative voices of women, POC and other under represented artists in order to create brand new opera theatre "without the ego."  Click this link to find out more about Alize's work as a librettist. 

 

   To find out more about Alize's work and previous performance history, please visit the Press Kit.

ABOUT

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

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Performances
2024
2025

Events

  • HUB CITY OPERA AND DANCE CO.: Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off
    HUB CITY OPERA AND DANCE CO.: Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off
    Mar 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
    Avenel Performing Arts Center, 150 Avenel St, Avenel, NJ 07001, USA
    Alize performs the role of Ivy Sweet in Hub City Opera and Dance Co.'s Double-Bill, Culinary Crescendo's featuring the New Jersey Premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off, paired with Lee Hoiby's Bon Appétit.
  • HUB CITY OPERA AND DANCE CO.: Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off
    HUB CITY OPERA AND DANCE CO.: Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off
    Mar 30, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Avenel Performing Arts Center, 150 Avenel St, Avenel, NJ 07001, USA
    Alize performs the role of Ivy Sweet in Hub City Opera and Dance Co.'s Double-Bill, Culinary Crescendo's featuring the New Jersey Premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s The Cook-Off, paired with Lee Hoiby's Bon Appétit.
  • Theatre On The Verge New Musicals Festival at Media Theatre
    Theatre On The Verge New Musicals Festival at Media Theatre
    Apr 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Media, 104 E State St, Media, PA 19063, USA
    Alize plays the role of Juana in Judia, based on the French grand opera La juive (Halevy/Scribe), by Drew Russell DuBouff for Theatre on the Verge's New Musicals Festival, April 11th at Media Theatre in PA.
  • Alliance for New Music-Theatre Composer-Librettist Studio
    Alliance for New Music-Theatre Composer-Librettist Studio
    Jun 07, 2025, 7:00 PM – Jun 22, 2025, 11:00 PM
    Washington, 4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA
    Alize performs as a professional singer/actor in this nationally-renowned training program for composers and librettists to develop their work, has been preparing professional artists to deepen their understanding of collaborative principles across the spectrum of music-theatre since 1986.
  • Haverford Orchestra & Chorus - Handel's Messiah: Soprano Soloist
    Haverford Orchestra & Chorus - Handel's Messiah: Soprano Soloist
    Dec 21, 2024, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
    Philadelphia, 4527 Haverford Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Alize peforms as the Soprano Soloist with the Haverford professional orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Barry Davidson.
  • New City Sinfonia: Chants d'Auvergne by J. Canteloube
    New City Sinfonia: Chants d'Auvergne by J. Canteloube
    Nov 09, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM PST
    Grossmont Performing Arts Center, 8800 Grossmont College Dr, San Diego, CA 92119, USA
    Chants d'Auvergne (1923-1930) (Songs from the Auvergne), by Joseph Canteloube, is a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, arranged for soprano voice and orchestra. The 27 songs are in the local language, Auvergnat, a dialect. Under the direction of Maestra Alyze Dreiling.
  • Arcana New Music Ensemble, Presented by Bowerbird: Works by George Walker
    Arcana New Music Ensemble, Presented by Bowerbird: Works by George Walker
    Nov 02, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Alize performs selections from George Walker's Song Cycles, Emily Dickinson Songs, and Three Songs, with Pianist David Hughes.
  • Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Sep 29, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    Philadelphia, 2030 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Presented by Alter Ego Chamber Opera, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Of Fiercer Origins” features the Philly Premiere of A PREGNANT PAUSE by Garth Baxter; Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai, + World Premiere songs, poetry by Adrienne Rich, composers Tori Lavan; Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore.
  • Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Sep 28, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Philadelphia, 2030 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Presented by Alter Ego Chamber Opera, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Of Fiercer Origins” features the Philly Premiere of A PREGNANT PAUSE by Garth Baxter; Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai, + World Premiere songs, poetry by Adrienne Rich, composers Tori Lavan; Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore.
  • Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Sep 28, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    Philadelphia, 2030 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Presented by Alter Ego Chamber Opera, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Of Fiercer Origins” features the Philly Premiere of A PREGNANT PAUSE by Garth Baxter; Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai, + World Premiere songs, poetry by Adrienne Rich, composers Tori Lavan; Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore.
  • Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Of Fiercer Origins: An Operatic Double-Bill
    Sep 27, 2024, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Philadelphia, 2030 Sansom St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Presented by Alter Ego Chamber Opera, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, “Of Fiercer Origins” features the Philly Premiere of A PREGNANT PAUSE by Garth Baxter; Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai, + World Premiere songs, poetry by Adrienne Rich, composers Tori Lavan; Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore.
  • A PHILLY MIKADO! Presented by Aurora Classical
    A PHILLY MIKADO! Presented by Aurora Classical
    Sep 14, 2024, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 2110 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
    Alize plays Miriam (formerly known as Yum-Yum) in “A Philly Mikado!”, a brand-new take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular works, set right here in Philadelphia in the middle of the Mummers Parade.
  • Romeo + Juliette with Prismatic Ensemble
    Romeo + Juliette with Prismatic Ensemble
    Aug 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Christ Church Neighborhood House Theatre, 20 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
    Alize plays Tybalt in Prismatic Ensemble's Romeo + Juliette by Gounod
  • Romeo + Juliette with Prismatic Ensemble
    Romeo + Juliette with Prismatic Ensemble
    Aug 09, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Christ Church Neighborhood House Theatre, 20 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
    Alize plays Tybalt in Prismatic Ensemble's Romeo + Juliette by Gounod
  • Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Jun 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
    HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA
    Five Ways to Die is a world premiere opera written and composed by artists in Experiments in Opera’s critically-acclaimed Writers’ Room.
  • Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Jun 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
    HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA
    Five Ways to Die is a world premiere opera written and composed by artists in Experiments in Opera’s critically-acclaimed Writers’ Room.
  • Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Jun 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
    HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA
    Five Ways to Die is a world premiere opera written and composed by artists in Experiments in Opera’s critically-acclaimed Writers’ Room.
  • Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Five Ways To Die WORLD PREMIERE
    Jun 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
    HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA
    Five Ways to Die is a world premiere opera written and composed by artists in Experiments in Opera’s critically-acclaimed Writers’ Room.

Past Performance Highlights

2023

ST. PETERSBURG OPERA
Alcina - G.F. Handel
Role: Morgana (cover)


KALEIDESCOPE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Quartet 2 - Arnold Schoenberg
Soprano Soloist 


HUB CITY OPERA
The Coffee Cantata- J.S. Bach (Libretto/Adaptation by Alize Rozsnyai)
Role: Lisa
Phony - David Brown (Libretto Alize Rozsnyai)
Role: Heather


EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
Five Ways to Die - (Workshops) Multiple Artist Teams
Roles: Minerva, Cookie, and more


2022 and before

OPERA PHILALDELPHIA
Andy: A Popera - Dan Visconti & Heath Allen 
Role: An Andy


ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL
Il Viaggio a Reims - Maestro Alberto Zedda
Role: Delia


DEN NYE OPER
Die Zauberflöte - Mozart (Arias Only) 
Role: Königin der Nacht 


CAPE COD SYMPHONY
Carmina Burana - Orff 
Role: Soprano Soloist

OPERA FAYETTEVILLE
Dark Sisters - Nico Muhly
Role: Zina 


PRINCETON SYMPHONY
le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart 
Role: Susanna 

OPERA & CURTIS OPERA
Dialogues des Carmelites - Maestro Corrado Rovaris
Role: Blanche de la Force


Elegy for Young Lovers - H.W. Henze - Maestro George Manahan 
Role: Hilda Mack

Cold Mountain (workshop) 
- Jennifer Higdon 
Role: Lila

The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody lišky Bystroušky) -Janáček - Maestro Corrado Rovaris
Role: Chocholka


BETH MORRISON PROJECTS

NextGen Concerts "when icarus fell, was there a splash?" - Maya Miro Johnson - Maestra Kamna Gupta

Role: Soloist

 

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY OPERA

Jane Eyre - Louis Karchin - Maestra Sara Jobin

Role: Maid / Jane cover

BOHEME OPERA COMPANY
Liebovar - Misha Dutka 
Role: Rivka


GROSSMONT SYMPHONY
Der Rosenkavalier - R. Strauss 
Role: Sophie

TRENTINO MUSIC FESTIVAL OPERA
Giulio Cesare - Handel
Role: Cleopatra

Cendrillon 
- Massenet - Maestro J. David Jackson 
Role: la La Fée

 

Die Zauberflöte - Mozart - Maestro Neal Goren
Role: Königin der Nacht


HUB CITY OPERA
La Serva Padrona - Pergolesi
Role: Serpina


ALTER EGO CHAMBER OPERA
Alcina REVAMPED - G.F. Handel (Adaptation/Libretto by Alize Rozsnyai) 
Role: Morgana


GARDEN STATE OPERA
Silk City - Francesco Santelli
Role: Evelyn Katherine Hutchinson

CURTIS OPERA THEATRE
L'elisir d'amore -Donizetti - Maestro Kensho Wantanabe
Role: Adina

Idomeneo
 -Mozart - Maestro George Manahan 
Role: Ilia

Les Mamelles de Tiresias -Poulenc - Maestro David Hayes 
Role: Thérèse

Rinaldo 
- Handel
Role: Almirena

 

Die Zauberflöte - Mozart  
Role: Königin der Nacht


KOL MEIRA PRODUCTIONS
Elijah's Violin (World Premiere) - Meira Warshauer - Maestro Jonathan Khuner
Role: Zohara 

ASPEN OPERA THEATRE

The Rape of Lucretia - Britten - Maestra Jane Glover

Role: Lucia cover

(Full Scholarship 1st Place Winner from the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego)

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