Interview Categories: Charming beginnings

Valeriia Savinskaia

Dear Valeriia, it’s always a pleasure to chat with young and promising opera singers! Thank you for accepting our invitation. You began your studies in Russia and continued them at Musik und Kunst Wien. What motivated you to leave Russia? Why did you choose a private university, and what differences have you noticed between the […]

Ani Kushyan:

Dear Ani, nice to meet you. It’s a pleasure to interview you for our rubric dedicated to young and promising singers! Since August 2021 you are a member of the Young Artists Opera Program at Armenian National Academic Theater. What about culture and opera in Armenia? How’s this form of art perceived in your country […]

Mané Galoyan

Mané, it’s such a pleasure to meet you! Congratulations on all your extraordinary recent achievements, among which the Operalia Competition! Tell me about this experience – about the decision to participate, the preparation process & then about the competition itself. This is an argument many young singers would like to know more about! Bianca, very […]

Kirill Belov

Hello, Kirill. It’a always a pleasure to chat with the young promises of the opera world! Let’s start from the begginning. How old were you when you discovered that opera is your path? Was it love at the first sight? Who guided your first steps on this path? Hello! First of all, I want to […]

Amélie Hois:

Dear Amélie, it is a pleasure to have you interviewed for one of our most appreciated rubric, Charming Beginnings! Our young readers love to hear successful stories of artists at around the same age as theirs, to get inspired and motivated in order to become the best version of themselves. Given the facts, I am […]

Sakhiew Mkosana

Dear Sakhiwe, I am so happy to have you here as my guest and find out more about you as an artist and human being. Tell me a little bit about your roots and the environment you grew up in. Did you discover your passion for opera at a young age? Dear Ana, thank you […]

Aitana Sanz Pérez

Dear Aitana, thank you for accepting our invitation. It’s always a pleasure to chat with young and promising opera singers. This year you made your debut as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Teatro Pèrez Galdós. You were Jessica’s Pratt cover, but she got sick and you got to step in. How was it to […]

Nikita Ivasechko

Dear Nikita, nice to meet you! It’s a pleasure to talk to you! With the beginning of the current season, you joined the Young Artist Program of the Wiener Staatsoper. Why Wiener Staatsoper? What are your expectations from this Program? What do these Studios look for in a young singer at the audition? As I […]

Francesca Benitez

First, I would like to introduce you to our readers: at 14 you discover your connection with singing, studying privately. How did this encounter with the work come about?  The encounter with opera was actually born much earlier, my aunt is a pianist and since childhood she made me listen to classical music, although I […]

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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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