Interview Categories: Exclusive Interviews

Nikola Hillebrand

Dear Nikola, so nice to meet you! Thank you for having accepted our invitation! Your performances of Rosenkavalier at Semperoper Dresden are now finished. How did the performances go? How is the beginning of the summer going for you and what do you think about the next season? Lovely to meet you, too! Thank you […]

Sascha Goetzel

Dear Mr. Goetzel, thank you for having accepted our invitation! This month the Rame Lahaj International Opera Festival (RLIOF) will take place. As an honorary board member of the festival, how would you describe your role and the influence you hope to have on the festival’s direction, especially in light of its aim to enrich […]

René Barbera

Dear Mr Barbera, thank you for having accepted our invitation! You have reached a point in your career where your repertoire comprises a wide variety. How do you manage from a technical standpoint to jump from, let’s say, Rigoletto or Die Rosenkavalier to Il Barbiere di Siviglia or La Cenerentola, all the while keeping your freshness and agility for the coloratura roles, […]

Sara Blanch

Dear Sara, thank you for accepting our invitation! It’s such a pleasure to meet and talk with you! You recently began rehearsing at the Rossini Opera Festival for Aureliano in Palmira. How are the rehearsals going? What can you tell us about this edition of the Festival?  Rehearsals are going very well. Aureliano in Palmira is […]

Gianluca Marciano

Dear Gianluca, it’s always a pleasure to chat with you. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to do so, this time on the pages of OPERA Charm Magazine, a few days before this year’s edition of the Lerici Music Festival! Thank you! What’s the story of this Festival you founded in your hometown, Lerici? Since […]

Stefano Poda

Dear Mr. Poda, we are delighted to have you interviewed right after the opening of the Centenary Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2023 with the new production of Verdi’s Aida, a worldwide broadcast. Congratulations! How did you feel about being the one chosen for this historical moment?  It is an event that we have been […]

Wallis Giunta

Dear Wallis, so nice to meet you! Thank you for having accepted our invitation. It’s an honour to have this interview with you and have you on the cover of OPERA Charm Magazine. My questions find you at Opera Comique Paris for Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves, am I right? How are the performances going? What […]

Anna El-Khashem

Dear Anna, having you interviewed for OPERA Charm Magazine is a real pleasure! Where do my questions find you? How did you start this summer, and what are your plans for the rest of it? I have just returned home from a wonderful week at Schloss Elmau, singing two recitals accompanied by Boris Giltburg and Lukas […]

Ulrike Köstinger

Dear Ulrike, it is such a pleasure to have you interviewed in the occasion of the launch of the new version of Operabase! First of all, what are the newest features that Operabase provides to its users?  The team has been working tirelessly to improve the site’s functionality and provide even more comprehensive information on […]

Etienne Dupuis

Dear Etienne, it’s a pleasure to meet and have this conversation with you. Thank you for having accepted our invitation! Recently, you performed in a concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus with Yusif Eyvazov, Afag Abbasova, Farhad Badalbeyli, Ates Kara, Daria Rybak, Sahib Pashazade and Fuad Ibrahimov. What was the concept behind the concert? How did […]

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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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