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ANNA BERGMAN has been hailed by The Washington Post as "songstress who has triumphed in everything from Broadway-flavored tunes to opera arias and the sultry innuendoes of the cabaret chanteuse." Anna has performed in Lincoln Center's American Songbook (with Barbara Cook); with Adam Guettel at Seattle's Intiman Theatre (performing in concert as Margaret from his Tony award-winning Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza) and in The Women at The King's Head Theatre (London). She also performed in the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration in A Little Night Music and as soloist in Carnegie Hall's centennial tribute to Ira Gershwin, at The White House, and with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra. In the summer of 2007, one of Anna's solo concerts "You & the Night & the Music: A Salon Performance with Anna Bergman" aired on public television.
Anna enjoys an international concert career, appearing in London's Cafe Royal, London's Lost Musicals with Kitty Carlisle Hart, in the International Festival of Cardiff, Wales in Waltz of My Heart: The Music of Ivor Novello (BBC TV), as Diana Devereaux in Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington at the Music Festival of the Hamptons, Aspen Music Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival with Steve Ross, Manaus Opera House (Brazil), and with the New York Festival of Song and the Lyrics & Lyricists Series.
As a singer and actress, Anna has appeared in leading theatres in such roles as Kate in Kiss Me Kate, Masha in Three Sisters, Cordelia in Falsettoland , Guenevere in Camelot, Donny in The Cryptogram, Big Jane in Three Postcards Jenny in The Beggar's Opera, , Valencienne in The Merry Widow and Rose in the opera Blood On The Dining Room Floor (NY world premiere).
Known for her "glorious voice and captivating, classy program and performance"(Cabaret Scenes), Anna has garnered critical acclaim for her own concert-cabarets at such venues as the Kennedy Center, the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, The Rainbow Room, The Stanhope Hotel, The Colony Hotel (Palm Beach), Crest Theatre, Guild Hall (East Hampton), Le Chat Noir (New Orleans). Ms. Bergman is a graduate and fellow of Vassar College and the Aspen Music School. Look for her award-winning CD, Souvenir (available in stores, at Amazon.com and on iTunes)and newly-released Kurt Weill in America (available in stores, at Amazon.com or on iTunes), both from LML Music.