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2024/25

Händel - "Giulio Cesare"

SESTO

Warszawska Opera Kameralna


2023/24

*Recording / Polish & Jewish Lullabies

Ballet-production

"Dwa-Two"

Theater Osnabrück

* Händel - "Messiah"

ALTO SOLO

Ensemble Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense

Warszawska Opera Kameralna

* Mozart - "Requiem"

ALTO SOLO

Ensemble Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense

Warszawska Opera Kameralna



SUMMER 2023

* Festival Castle Chamberopera Rheinsberg

Pergolesi - "La Molinara"

AMARANTA

&

Opera-Gala, among others Carmen


2022/ 23 - Oper Chemnitz

Main Scene

*Janáček - Přihody Lišky Bystroušky  - JAMNIK = BORSUK  

*Bizet - Carmen - MERCÉDÈS

* Lehár - Die Lustige Witwe - OLGA

* Humperdinck - Jaś & Małgosia  - PIASKOWY DZIADEK 

* Mozart - Entführung aus dem Serail - MEZZO / Kwartet

* J. Strauß - Die Fledermaus - IDA

* Loewe - My Fair Lady - Mrs. EYNSFORD-HILL


Opera-Studio

* H. Schmidt - I do, I do! - SHE

* Humperdinck - Hänsel & Gretel - Hänsel

* Ostermann & Winter - Spuk unterm Riesenrad -

IRENE SCHREIBER

* Song Recital- Lebensträume und Liebeswalzer



 

 

Young Polnish mezzosoprano  ANNA GRCAN first studied at the Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipinskiego in Wrocław with Olga Ksenicz (Bachelor's Degree), and later on in the Erasmus Program with Christiane Junghans at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden and   with Prof. Hendrikje Wangemann (Master's Degree & Stage Solo Degree)

Masterclasses with Laura Aikin, Olaf Bär, Isabela Klosińska, Agnieszka Rehlis, Matthias Rexroth, Małgorzata Walewska, Gerd Ücker  and Teresa Żylis-Gara completed her education.

Since 2024, Mrs Grycan is coached by the renowned voice-teacher Raymond Modesti in Amsterdam,


Future commitments include her debut as SESTO in Händel's "Giulio Cesare" with the Chamberopera Warsaw, where she also will perform the ALTO-SOLO in Händel's  "Messiah" and the ALTO-SOLO in Mozart's "Requiem" with  Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense; both under the baton of Adam Banaszak.


After her studies, Mrs Grycan was a member of the  dem Opera Studio at Theater Chemnitz, performing on the Main Stage the parts of DUCHSHUND & WOODPECKER in Janáček's „The cunning little Vixen“, SANDMAN in Humperdinck's "Hänsel & Gretel" (auch auch DVD), MERCÉDÈS in Bizets "Carmen, OLGA in Lehár's operetta "The Merry Widow",  ELEONOR DUNABR in Tom Snow's Musical "Footloose“, IRENE SCHREIBER, SALESWOMAN, POLICEWOMAN and  CONTROLLER in Oliver Ostermann's & Geffrey Goldberg's Uraufführung „Spook under the Ferris Wheel", Mrs. EYNSFORD-HILL in Loewes Musical „My Fair Lady“ and IDA in J. Strauß' „The Bat“, as well as the MEZZO-PART/ Solo-Qaurtett T in Mozart's „The Abduction from Serail“; 

and in Opera-Studio productions, she appeared in the title-role of Humperdinck's HÄNSEL and  as SHE in Harvey Schmidt's „I do, I do“.

Furthermore, she performed in the Opera-Studio  des Opernstudios Opera-Concerts and  Song-Recitals, a.o.  „Lebensträume und Liebeslieder“ and "Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein", a program, which also brought her to the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen.


Guest-contracts included MAŁGORZATA in Moniuszko's "Nowy Don Kichot - czyli sto szaleństw" (The New Don Quixote or 100 Madnesses) to the Warsaw Chamber Opera and the International Moniuszko Festival in Kudowa-Zdrój, where she also embodied sie KATARZYNA in Moniuszko's "Karmaniol - czyli Francuzi lubią żartować" (Carmagnole or the French love to joke), a part,  which she also appeared at the Opera Nova Bydgoszcz;PRINZ ORLOFSKY in J. Strauß "The Bat" brought her to the Opera-Studio Weimar and the Castle-Garden's Theatre Arnstadt and AMARANTA in Paisiello's "La Molinara" to the  Chamber Opera at Castle  Rheinsberg, where she also sang in Opera-Galas.

In addition, she recorded Polish and Hebrew Lullabies for the  Ballet-production "Dwa-Zwei"  at Theater Osnabrück.


In productions of the conservatories in Poland and Germany, Mrs Grycan was seen as RUGGIERO in Händel's "Alcina" (performed in the Staatsschauspiel Dresden), as L'ENFANT in Ravels "L'enfant et les sortilèges", as  CHERUBINO in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro“ and as  NUTRICE in Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea". 

 

Since several years, Mrs Grycan is working on a regular base with the cross-disciplinary nesemble  Theatr Pieśń Kozła (Theatre of the Song of the Goat) in Wrocław. 

With them, she appeared in the parts of GERTRUDA in "Hamlet - the comment",   THE HESTER in "Songs of Lear", CASSANDRA  in "Cassandra's Report / Antigone"KASANDRA  in "Warrior" and LUCIUS in  "Titus Andornicus Syndecdoche" in Poland and abroad. 

Venues included Great Theatre of China  Shanghai,   Shakespeare's Globe London, Zellerbach Playhouse Berkley (USA), Espoo Cultural Centre Tapiola Hall (Finland), Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Tianjin Grand Theatre and Opera House, BeijingTanqiao Performing Arts Center, Shakespeare Festival <Hamletscenen> in Helsingør (Denmark). Edinburgh Fringe Festival. and the Israel Festival Jerusalem;

as well as in Poland the Teatr Piśń Kozła in Wrocław, Teatr Polski in Wrocław. Teatr Dramatyczny in Warszaw and Teatr im, St, I,, Witkiewicza in Zakopane.

 

In addition, Mrs Grycan performed in concerts, a.o. Murray Schafer's "Requiem for a pretty girl" at the Film & Opera Academy <Isola Brissago> (Switzerland), Beethoven's "Missa C-Dur" and Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" with the Orchestra of the Dresden Conservatory, "Missa pro Pace" by W. Kilar with the Sudecian Philharmony, Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu Nostri" ,

Telemann's "Die Tageszeiten", Charpentier's "La Reniement de Saint Pierre" and "Quatuor Elementa" by F. A. Miča  with the NFM Wroclaw, as well as Moniuszko's "III. Litania Ostrobramska" with the Opolska Philharmony.


Anna Grycan had the pleasure to work with conductors and stage directors  such as Adam Banaszak, Benjamin Beyl, Jakob Brenner, Guillermo Garcia Calvo, Sylvain Cambreling, Diego Martin Etxeberria,  Bernhard Forck, Wolfgang Katschner, Jerôme Knols,, Jens Neubert, Steffen Piontek, Johannes Pölzgutter, Hans-Christoph Rademan, Joan Anton Rechi,  Azis Sadikovic, Arila Siegert, Roberto Skolmowski or Marcin Sompoliński.


Mrs Grycan received the 2nd Award at the Concorso Internationale di Canto Lirico im Italienischen Maiori (Italy); she was a Semi-finalist at the XX. Ada Sari International Singing Competition in Nowy Sącz (Poland); and was awarded with several Prizes at the International Vocal Competition of Chamber-Opera Castle Rheinberg (Germany) .


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