Interview Categories: Exclusive Interviews

From Mozart to Wagner: The Many Lives of Birger Radde

Dear Birger, thank you very much for accepting our invitation. It’s an huge pleasure to have this conversation with you. Can you take us back to the moment when you first knew opera would be your path? Was there a specific performance, teacher, or experience that sparked it all? It might be surprising, but for […]

The Voice Beyond the Stage: an exclusive interview with Millia Dibner

Dear Millia, it’s great to have you back! It’s a pleasure to chat with you again. You’ve brought up a very interesting subject. So, let’s start: how do you think the industry typically handles—or fails to support—female singers dealing with health issues, illness, or recovery after childbirth? To address this question, I think it’s important […]

Jack Swanson: The Man Behind Almaviva – Exploring Roles, Life, and the Opera World

Dear Jack, thank you very much for accepting our invitation! It’s a pleasure to have this conversation with you! You’re currently in New York for your house debut at Metropolitan Opera House. How do you mentally and emotionally prepare for such important first appearance? This is a very good question! I’ll start with the mental […]

A Voice for the Ages: Freddie De Tommaso on Passion, Legacy, and Living Full

Freddie, your story reads like an opera libretto in itself — from choirboy soprano to baritone, and now one of the most in-demand tenors of your generation. Looking back, was there a single moment when you felt destiny had finally caught up with you? (Was there a moment when you realized that singing opera was […]

The Grace and Grit of Inna Demenkova

Dear Inna, thank you for accepting our invitation. Let’s introduce you to our readers. What’s your story? Was there a defining moment or experience that made you realise opera was your true calling? Thank you very much for the invitation! I’m truly happy to share my story, and I hope that the emotions and experiences […]

Marko Mimica: The Power and Depth Behind the Bass-Baritone Voice

Dear Marko, thank you for accepting our invitation. It’s a pleasure to have this conversation with you! This season, you debuted at the Berlin Staatsoper with Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and performed in the premiere of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. What is it about these roles and productions that excite you? What can […]

Behind the Voice: Ruzan Mantashyan’s Path to Opera Stardom

Dear Ruzan, thank you for accepting our invitation. It’s a huge pleasure to have this conversation with you. In 2024, you made your debut in Japan at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater as Mimi. How was the experience for you? What differences did you observe between the Japanese audience and the European one? It’s a pleasure […]

Voice, Vision and Verdi: An Exclusive Conversation with Tenor Adam Smith

Dear Adam, it’s a pleasure to have this conversation with you! Currently, you are at Staatsoper Berlin for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Every production brings a new vision of its characters. What do you think this staging will add to your understanding of Pinkerton? Also, how do you hope the Berlin audience will perceive your portrayal […]

The Art of Storytelling Through Sound: An exclusive interview with Valeria Sepe

Dear Valeria, thank you for accepting our invitation. It’s a pleasure to have this conversation with you. You recently performed Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Massimo Bellini. What excites you about this role? What do you hope the audience takes away from your portrayal of Cio-Cio-San? Are there particular emotions or messages you aim to […]

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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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