Alize Francheska, a soprano “displaying profound imagination and control” (Philadelphia Inquirer), is 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).
Alize Francheska Rozsnyai is a soprano graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music “displaying profound imagination and control” (Philadelphia Inquirer), building a diverse and exciting performance career as a classical soprano with a "superb voice" (Harrogate News) which is “sparkling” (ArtBlog), all while serving up "deliciously diva performances" (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN). In 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).
Alize's recent engagements include her role debut in Carmen as Frasquita, directed by Stefano Koroneos with Boheme Opera Company New Jersey, joining St. Petersburg Opera as an Emerging Artist covering the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina, and creating multiple roles including Minerva and Cookie in Experiments in Opera's Five Ways To Die, in which she is a part of the project through all workshopping phases, and the World Premiere, and making her debut with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra of Los Angles in repertoire by Schoenberg and Nina Shekhar. She portrayed the role of Rivka in the World Premiere of Misha Dutka's Liebovar with Boheme Opera NJ, and was, the Soprano Soloist in Joseph Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with New City Sinfonia San Diego, soloist in Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer, S. 33 a rare Oratorio by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the role of Evelyn Hutchinson in Silk City with Garden State Opera, and Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona with Hub City Opera Company. A frequent artist with Hub City Opera, she returns for the roles of Heather in her very own (as librettist) Phony, a satirical opera which chronicles smartphone addiction, music by David Brown, and her adaptation of Bach's Coffee Cantata, and Ivy Sweet in The Cook-Off by Shawn E. Okpebholo in 2025. She continues 2025 as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata in her company debut with New Jersey Opera Theatre, and making her role debut as Zerbinetta in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Trentino Music Festival, under the baton of Arthur Fagan and stage direction by David Gately, as well as a return to one of her favorite roles, Morgana in Handel’s Alcina, conducted by Neal Goren and directed by José Maria Condemi. In the Fall of 2025, Alize will perform as Turnspit in Dvorak's Rusalka with New Jersey Opera Theatre, conducted by Charles Prince and stage direction by Dennis Oliveira.
Other recent performances include a 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, performing a virtually streamed concert with Beth Morrison Projects at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, for the Next Gen series, and Morgana in Handel's Alcina REVAMPED with Alter Ego Chamber Opera/Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Alize’s concert performances include performing for George Crumb himself in October of 2019, for his 90th birthday at the Annenberg Center, in Apparition, Soprano Solos in Carmina Burana, her debut with the Cape Cod Symphony, at Carnegie Hall as soprano soloist in Berio’s Sinfonia, and the Kennedy Center Schonberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, set to her original english adaptation, with the Curtis 20/21, Königin der Nacht with Den Nye Oper, in Bergen, Norway. Alize performed the Soprano Solos with in Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert, a stylistic fusion of opera and jazz, to open the Wilmington Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, and guest recitalist in Saigon’s Performance Complex at the Soul Music and Performing Arts Academy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
A sought after interpreter of new music and atonal works, Ms. 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, world premiere with Opera Philadelphia, and reprising with the Seattle Symphony [Untitled 3] Series, 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. Other favorite operatic highlights include Delia in Il Viaggio a Reims with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
Ms. Rozsnyai received accolades from many prestigious competitions such as First Place and Grand Prize Winner in the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, First Place POSA Competition, Career Bridges Grant,Winner, Semi-Finalist, Lotte Lenya Competition, Semi-Finalist 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 passionate collaborator, Alize is a librettist working on her first full-length operas with composers Jane Kozhenikova and Tori Lavan, and has also collaborated with Garth Baxter (A Pregnant Pause), Roger A. Martinez (Potentialite, Souls Unscreened), Steven Sametz (Seasons Unseen), and Colin Payne (Distance Calls). She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Alter Ego Chamber Opera based in Philadelphia, which strives to serve as a catalyst for positive change, performing brand new works and old works in new ways.
Alize Francheska, a soprano “displaying profound imagination and control” (Philadelphia Inquirer), is 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).
Alize Francheska Rozsnyai is a soprano graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music “displaying profound imagination and control” (Philadelphia Inquirer), building a diverse and exciting performance career as a classical soprano with a "superb voice" (Harrogate News) which is “sparkling” (ArtBlog), all while serving up "deliciously diva performances" (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN). In 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).
Alize's recent engagements include her role debut in Carmen as Frasquita, directed by Stefano Koroneos with Boheme Opera Company New Jersey, joining St. Petersburg Opera as an Emerging Artist covering the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina, and creating multiple roles including Minerva and Cookie in Experiments in Opera's Five Ways To Die, in which she is a part of the project through all workshopping phases, and the World Premiere, and making her debut with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra of Los Angles in repertoire by Schoenberg and Nina Shekhar. She portrayed the role of Rivka in the World Premiere of Misha Dutka's Liebovar with Boheme Opera NJ, and was, the Soprano Soloist in Joseph Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with New City Sinfonia San Diego, soloist in Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer, S. 33 a rare Oratorio by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the role of Evelyn Hutchinson in Silk City with Garden State Opera, and Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona with Hub City Opera Company. A frequent artist with Hub City Opera, she returns for the roles of Heather in her very own (as librettist) Phony, a satirical opera which chronicles smartphone addiction, music by David Brown, and her adaptation of Bach's Coffee Cantata, and Ivy Sweet in The Cook-Off by Shawn E. Okpebholo in 2025. She continues 2025 as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata in her company debut with New Jersey Opera Theatre, and making her role debut as Zerbinetta in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Trentino Music Festival, under the baton of Arthur Fagan and stage direction by David Gately, as well as a return to one of her favorite roles, Morgana in Handel’s Alcina, conducted by Neal Goren and directed by José Maria Condemi. In the Fall of 2025, Alize will perform as Turnspit in Dvorak's Rusalka with New Jersey Opera Theatre, conducted by Charles Prince and stage direction by Dennis Oliveira.
Other recent performances include a 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, performing a virtually streamed concert with Beth Morrison Projects at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, for the Next Gen series, and Morgana in Handel's Alcina REVAMPED with Alter Ego Chamber Opera/Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Alize’s concert performances include performing for George Crumb himself in October of 2019, for his 90th birthday at the Annenberg Center, in Apparition, Soprano Solos in Carmina Burana, her debut with the Cape Cod Symphony, at Carnegie Hall as soprano soloist in Berio’s Sinfonia, and the Kennedy Center Schonberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, set to her original english adaptation, with the Curtis 20/21, Königin der Nacht with Den Nye Oper, in Bergen, Norway. Alize performed the Soprano Solos with in Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert, a stylistic fusion of opera and jazz, to open the Wilmington Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, and guest recitalist in Saigon’s Performance Complex at the Soul Music and Performing Arts Academy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
A sought after interpreter of new music and atonal works, Ms. 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, world premiere with Opera Philadelphia, and reprising with the Seattle Symphony [Untitled 3] Series, 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. Other favorite operatic highlights include Delia in Il Viaggio a Reims with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
Ms. Rozsnyai received accolades from many prestigious competitions such as First Place and Grand Prize Winner in the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, First Place POSA Competition, Career Bridges Grant,Winner, Semi-Finalist, Lotte Lenya Competition, Semi-Finalist 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 passionate collaborator, Alize is a librettist working on her first full-length operas with composers Jane Kozhenikova and Tori Lavan, and has also collaborated with Garth Baxter (A Pregnant Pause), Roger A. Martinez (Potentialite, Souls Unscreened), Steven Sametz (Seasons Unseen), and Colin Payne (Distance Calls). She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Alter Ego Chamber Opera based in Philadelphia, which strives to serve as a catalyst for positive change, performing brand new works and old works in new ways.
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