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No.9/2023

We are excited to present the 33rd edition of OPERA Charm Magazine, your monthly dose of charm from the world of opera. The renowned Violeta Urmana graces the cover of our magazine’s November 2023 edition, just as she did for our third issue, which was published in 2020.

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No.8/2023

In front of the 5th issue of OPERA Charm Magazine in 2023, I want to share with you, first of all, a glorious summer, the chance to explore as many beautiful places where music is made exquisitely by the most sought-after artists of today’s panorama, but also the moment of respiro, to gather up our forces and start this beautiful journey in September again, once the theatres will open their seasons again!

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No.7/2023

Summer is such a marvellously chaotic time for the opera world. We all want to be able to be everywhere, from the amazing Arena di Verona to the Salzburg Festspiele and everything in between, am I right?
That’s why the August issue of OPERA Charm Magazine will take you to some places you might not have had the chance to visit yet.

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Federico Tibone
Opera is about creating moments where people feel deeply, whether it’s laughter, tears, or sheer awe.

Federico Tibone is an acclaimed Italian conductor, pianist, and vocal coach, currently associate conductor at Opéra de Marseille and Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille. With a career spanning major opera houses and collaborations with renowned artists, he has led productions from Madama Butterfly to Le Nozze di Figaro. The 2024-25 season sees him debut at Opéra de Québec with Il Trovatore and release a new song album with mezzo-soprano Anne-Lise Polchlopek. In a conversation with Cristina Fieraru, Federico talks about beginning of career, about this collaboration with Lawrence Foster & Paolo Arrivabeni, about Démos Marseille and it’s social impact and many other inspiring things.

February 2025
Cristina Fieraru
Angelo Villari
The fact remains that even when you receive that recognition, deep down you know that there are many things you haven't done well and that you could improve.
February 2025
Alice Lechner
Ossian Huskinson
Recognition can be a factor, but for me, success is about achieving the goals that I set for myself.
February 2025
Ana Stamate
Kristina Mkhitaryan
I always imagined that the competitions were like a birthday party I guess – just a gathering of close friends who I could sing to. That’s how I got through them! 
February 2025
Alice Lechner
Giorgio Misseri
The biggest mistake one makes when tackling a new repertoire is to distort one's own vocality.
April 2024
Alex Suciu
Julie Roset & Stephano Park
December 2023
Alice Lechner
Diana Skavronskaya
God blessed me to be a lyric soprano, and my voice has a very rich and beautiful timbre. I can convey the intensity and vulnerability of my character with ease. That being said, I rather like tragedy roles.
November 2023
Alice Lechner
David Costa Garcia
It's not just about the voice; you need to learn to be a good actor, understand the music, know how to read music, etc.
November 2023
Cristina Fieraru
Natalia Salinas
Having a solid career as a female director is still a big challenge. Even though there are more spaces and opportunities to make ourselves visible, there is also a lot of resistance at the same time.
November 2023
Cristina Fieraru
Violeta Urmana
The voice does not forgive wrong choices. With intelligence and intuition, one must preserve one's voice over the years, recognise and anticipate its development, and, if necessary, make repertoire changes at the right time, very carefully.
November 2023
Alice Lechner
Cristina Pasaroiu
I had time for introspection and discovered what’s important for me: being, first of all, a normal human being, being grateful for every small thing I have, and each person that made me a better person and artist.
November 2023
Cristina Fieraru

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ROSSINI'S IL VIAGGIO A REIMS
The prestigious Rundfunkchor Berlin together with the Berliner Philharmoniker perform Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims conducted by Claudio Abbado. Recorded in 1993, it presents one of G. Rossini’s most emblematic works composed for the coronation of King Charles X of France in 1825. Musicologist Janet Johnson recovered the work which was revived at the Rossini...
February 2025
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Sir Colin Davis
Colin Rex Davis was born on September 25th, 1927, in Weybridge, Surrey, England, and was known for his exceptional interpretations of a wide range of classical and contemporary repertoire. His early exposure to music was through the clarinet, which he started playing at a young age. His interest in conducting developed during his time at...
November 2023
Alice Lechner
Teatro Massimo
We continue our Theaters around the World column, and in this issue, we arrive in Sicily, more precisely in Palermo. It is known that Teatro Massimo di Palermo was, for a long time, the third largest opera house in Europe, after Palais Garnier and Wiener Staatsoper. The construction of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily,...
November 2023
Alice Lechner
Part I: You cannot starve yourself and expect yourself to sing well
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Alice Lechner

Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.

Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.

Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Oana Zamfir

Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.

She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.

Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.

Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.

Alexandru Suciu

Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.

His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.

During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.

He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.

Cristina Fieraru

Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.

She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.

She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.

Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.

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