Anna Cymmerman is a Polish operatic soprano. She studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź where she majored in Vocal Acting and Performance and graduated with honors in June, 2000. While a student, she debuted as a soloist in the Grand Theatre, Łódź. There, she performed in Polish as Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites directed by Krzysztof Kelm.[1] For this role, she was judged the best opera debut of the 1999/2000 season.[1] She has since performed in opera productions in Austria, Denmark, Holland, and Germany.[2] Her performance in Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater at Chicago's International Music Theater was considered a great success.[2] She sang in a concert organized by the Polish embassy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing for more than 1000 IOC representatives.[3]
Cymmerman's repertoire of leading roles includes Elvira in Verdi's Ernani; Corinna in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims; Neddy in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Marguerite in Gounod's Faust; the title role of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (Grand Theatre);[4] the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and the title role in Stanisław Moniuszko's The Countess.[2] In the lighter repertoire, her roles include Sylva in Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin,[1] Hanna Glawari in Lehár's The Merry Widow, Rosalinde in Strauss' Die Fledermaus,[1] the Widow in Kander's Zorba, and Clara in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.[2]
- ^ a b c d "Anna Cymmerman". Elektroniczna Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego (in Polish).
- ^ a b c d "Anna Cymmerman profile", Grand Theatre, Łódź
- ^ "Anna Cymmerman zaśpiewa na olimpiadzie", [Anna Cymmerman to sing at the Olympics] by Renata Sas, Express ilustrowany, 5 September 2008
- ^ "Wystawna 'Adrianna...' by Renata Sas, Express ilustrowany, 21 October 2004