Described as having “an engaging stage presence” (The Daily Telegraph) and giving “compelling performances, offering fluid line and gripping conviction” (Opera Magazine)
A current City Music Foundation artist, Rozanna is a graduate of The Royal Academy Opera School, where she studied with Jonathan Papp and the late Anne Howells. She was a recipient of The Karaviotis Scholarship, The Sir Charles Mackerras Award and The Carr-Gregory Trust Award.
She was born in Leicestershire, England, of Ukrainian descent. After completing her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Rozanna decided to dedicate herself to classical singing. During her time at the Academy, she was a member of Academy Song Circle and a finalist in the prestigious Patrons Award. Rozanna was also awarded The Karaviotis Prize at Les Azuriales Young Artist Competition, Nice, France, in August 2012 and, in the summer of 2013, attended the Solti Accademia in Castiglione della Pescaia. Rozanna was on the Young Artist Platform at The Oxford Lieder Festival (now known as The Oxford International Song Festival) and, since then, she has been invited to perform in various concert halls around the UK and abroad, including The Wigmore Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, The Holywell Music Room, Kings Place, The Mendelssohn-Remise Berlin, The Prokofiev Hall at The Mariinsky Theatre and The St Petersburg Philharmonic.
In September 2023, Rozanna was awarded the Audience Prize at the Mastersingers’ Carole Rees Awards Wagner Voice Competition and will be performing the role of Rossweisse in Wagner’s Die Walküre as part of Longborough Festival Opera’s Ring Cycle 2024. She has also recently been nominated for an Offie (Off West End) Award for her performance as Hänsel in HGO’s production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Her first CD, performing alongside Sir John Tomlinson and Counterpoise in Kokoschka’s Doll, is available on Champs Hill records.
Previous roles include Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel (Hampstead Garden Opera) La Messaggera/Speranza/Proserpina L’Orfeo (cover for Longborough Festival Opera), Lapák (Dog)/Zlatohřbítek (Fox) The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera), Ljubica in Ana Sokolović’s a cappella opera Svadba ‘A Wedding’ (Waterperry Opera Festival), Žofka in Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared (WOF), Cordelia/Fool The Shackled King* by Casken (Counterpoise), Forester’s Wife The Cunning Little Vixen (Longborough Festival Opera YAP), Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Barefoot Opera), Third Lady The Magic Flute (WOF), Prinz Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Berlin Opera Academy), Alma Mahler The Art of Love / Kokoschka’s Doll* (Counterpoise), Mother Goose The Rake’s Progress (cover for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Second Woman/Second Witch Dido and Aeneas (Birmingham Opera Company), Jezebel Naboth’s Vineyard by Goehr (Melos Sinfonia), Beggar Woman Death in Venice (Garsington Opera), Smeraldina The Little Green Swallow by Dove (British Youth Opera), the title role in Handel’s Ariodante (Royal Academy Opera), Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon (RAO), Fidalma The Secret Marriage by Cimarosa (cover for BYO), the title role in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (RAO and the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Maddalena Rigoletto (Stanley Opera). As a member of the chorus, she has performed with English National Opera, The Royal Opera House, The Monteverdi Choir and Wexford Festival Opera.
*World Premiere
