Anna Maria Chiuri

First of all, thank you for accepting my invitation! I want to wish you a happy birthday on this occasion since on October 3rd you celebrate your birthday! I would like to start with this question: at this point in your life and in your career, in quite a difficult time for the world of […]

Kristine Opolais

Kristine, thank you again for kindly accepting my invitation to be the Cover Artist of our 4th issue! We had the chance to chat a little during the lockdown and I think that I am also talking on behalf of my readers when I say that we discovered such a greatly inspiring person, beyond the […]

Riccardo Fassi

First, thank you again, dear Riccardo, for accepting my invitation! We are honoured to have an interview with you, one of the shiniest stars of the Opera’s new generation, in the 2nd number of our Magazine. You started your artistic journey in 2014 with the role of Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, a Teatro Sociale di […]

Angel Blue

Angel, thank you very much for being on the cover of OPERA Charm Magazine’s 2nd number! Ever since our Instagram Live Interview, I’ve been amazed by your kindness and humbleness. You are absolutely Charming!  Thank you very much! Also, we all know that over these over two months of quarantine you’ve been one of the […]

Tamara Radjecnović

Dear Tamara, it’s a pleasure to meet you through this interview. I would like to start talking about the excellent feedback you got for the music video on “La rosa y el sauce”, a song by Carlos Guastavino. Recently, you released a new one for Verdi’s aria, “Merce, dilette amiche.” First, I would like to […]

Kasper Holten

Dear Mr. Holten, it’s an immense honour to have the opportunity to talk with you! Thank you once again for the incredible production of Boris Godunov that opened the current season of Teatro alla Scala! Where would you place this achievement on the scale of successful moments throughout your entire career? I don’t think it […]

Riccardo Fassi

Dear Riccardo Fassi, I am glad to interview you for the 1st/2023 issue of OPERA Charm Magazine. First, I would like to ask how 2022 was for you, professionally?  My 2022 was full of beautiful productions: it started in London with Le nozze di Figaro at Royal Opera House and through the year I had […]

Dan Ettinger

Maestro, thank you very much for accepting my invitation! It’s a pleasure to meet you and chat with you. First of all, I wish you a wonderful 2023! Let’s talk briefly about the end of 2022 and Madama Butterfly from Tel Aviv. How was it? How is your relationship with Puccini’s music?  Happy New Year, indeed! My […]

Saimir Pirgu

Dear Saimir, thank you for accepting our invitation! It’s such a pleasure to meet and chat with you! How are you? What are your hopes and dreams for 2023? I’m very well, thank you! I started the year singing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim and I hope that this “Ode to […]

Asmik Grigorian:

Dear Asmik, it’s a great pleasure to have you interviewed for OPERA Charm Magazine and I am very much looking forward to attend the performance of your beloved Rusalka with the Czech Philharmonic. What’s your story with this piece and how would you present it to someone who would listen to it for the first […]

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.

BIANCA L. NICA

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