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Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini Opera Festival

English: Il viaggio a Reims by Gioachino Rossini is a work that, despite having been conceived in connection with a specific political event, transcends its festive character to offer an ironic portrayal of European society during the Restoration. Composed for the coronation of Charles X in 1825, the opera reflects the aspirations of the French […]

Concert Florez 30, Rossini Opera Festival

English: The long-awaited recital by Juan Diego Flórez, marking 30 years since his first appearance at the Rossini Opera Festival in 1996 — having already celebrated his first twenty years at the ROF in 2016 with the concert Flórez 20 — took place on 18 August at the Auditorium Scavolini. For the occasion, he was […]

L’Occasione fa il Ladro, Rossini Opera Festival

English: The operatic output of the young Rossini developed during a period of significant change in the Italian musical landscape. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, libretti were not usually based on entirely new stories. More often, existing plots were taken and reshaped to meet the requirements of the performance, the conventions of the […]

Le Siège de Corinthe | Rossini Opera Festival

Italiano: Quando Rossini presentò Le Siège de Corinthe a Parigi nel 1826, l’opera non era del tutto nuova. Alla sua origine si trovava Maometto II, opera che il compositore aveva presentato per la prima volta a Napoli nel 1820. Tuttavia, più che considerare Le Siège de Corinthe come una semplice reutilizzazione di una partitura precedente, […]

La Scala di Seta, Rossini Opera Festival

Italiano: IL FESTIVAL L’ingresso nella splendida città di Pesaro non lascia indifferente il visitatore. Affacciata sull’Adriatico, questa accogliente città delle Marche conserva la memoria di uno dei compositori fondamentali della storia della musica: Gioachino Rossini, nato qui nel 1792. Dirigendosi verso la costa, là dove l’Adriatico incontra il profilo della città, si trova il Teatro […]

Tutto nel mondo è burla!, Falstaff at Gran Teatro del Liceu

“There is only one way to end a career better than with Otello: with the triumph of Falstaff.” With these words, Arrigo Boito, librettist of Falstaff, wrote to Giuseppe Verdi, convinced that only a great comedy could surpass the success of Shakespearean tragedy. And indeed, it was with the triumph of Falstaff that the Gran […]

The Daughter of Turan at Les Arts

A complete sell-out for weeks marked the tremendous success of the final production of Valencia’s Les Arts 2025–2026 season. Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera was performed at the Valencian opera house on 11 June, fittingly during the year that marks the centenary of its premiere at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. […]

Jonas Kaufmann’s Magische Töne: Vocal Magic with the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Jonas Kaufmann’s Magische Töne is a compelling journey through lyrical beauty, dramatic intensity, and intimate storytelling. From the opening notes, it becomes clear that this is an album designed not just to showcase a voice, but to create a dialogue between singer, orchestra, and listener. Kaufmann’s voice, warm and radiant yet capable of heroic power, finds its […]

Werther at Gran Teatre del Liceu

The fascinating music of Jules Massenet in his opera Werther, based on the epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dates back to 1886. Following the success of Manon, Massenet attended the Bayreuth Festival accompanied by his publisher, Georges Hartmann, who gave him a French translation of Werther to read […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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BIANCA L. NICA

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