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Claudia Pavone

Dear Claudia, we are thrilled to have you interviewed right after your debut on the 29th of September 2021 with Rigoletto at Teatro La Fenice in Venice under the direction of maestro Damiano Michieletto, one of the most significant international directors, alongside Luca Salsi as Rigoletto. Tell us about this experience, about Michieletto’s innovative vision […]

Francesca Dotto

Dear Francesca, before being one of the most promising sopranos in the Italian and international opera world, you can claim to be a musician: you studied flute at the Bologna Conservatory and graduated with this major in 2006. How much does a musical background like yours help an opera singer’s career? It is undoubtedly helpful […]

Sofia Esparza

Dear Sofìa, I am glad to have such a fresh & beautiful presence – Charming indeed – as the guest of this interview! Just as a ray of sun on a rainy day, which would describe the challenging moment we are passing through… Today, on World Opera Day, in Italy, the theatres closed, and we […]

Ermonela Jaho

Dear Ermonela, it’s an honour to have you on the cover of our 2nd-anniversary issue! Thank you very much for accepting our invitation! Our conversation finds you in Hamburg for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, am I right? How’s the production going? Yes, I’m in Hamburg. Tomorrow is the last performance of Madama Butterfly, my 178th time […]

Elisa Balbo

Dear Elisa, it’s a pleasure to interview you, and, already from the beginning, I want to express my deep regret for the fact that, due to the new DPCM available from October 26th until November 26th, your next project, Faust rapsodia at the 2020 Ravenna Festival won’t be open to the public, so I won’t […]

Maria Mudryak

Hi, Maria! It’s always a pleasure to talk to you. It’s hard not to smile at the coincidence between your name and that of the divine Callas: you are an emerging star of the opera of our times. You already won the AsLiCo competition in 2014, Operalia in 2017, and trod the main stages in […]

Kathryn Lewek

Glad to meet you, dear Kathryn! OPERA Charm Magazine is truly delighted and honored to have you as part of this issue, as we know that you established yourself as one of opera’s most thrilling coloratura sopranos of your generation. We’re still in the first quarter of 2023, so I would like to ask how […]

Martina Belli

Martina, there’s such a pleasure to finally meet you! First of all, congratulations on your performance at the gala concert Fuoco di gioia at Teatro Regio di Parma. We are all so excited to be able to see you performing one of your statement roles, Carmen, on the stage of the same excellent theatre in […]

Lisette Oropesa

Lisette, first of all, thank you very much for having accepted my invitation! OPERA Charm Magazine feels honoured to have the chance to chat with you.  Thank you for the invitation!  The last two months since we met in Parma have been quite busy for you. You had your debut at Teatro Regio & at […]

Anastasia Bartoli

Hello, Anastasia! Thank you for accepting our invitation! I’m glad I have the opportunity to interview you right after your debut as Abigaille on the 21st of October at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari under the direction of M° Renato Palumbo, alongside George Petean as Nabucco and Riccardo Zanellato as Zaccaria. Tell us about this […]

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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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