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Yu Shao

Dear Shao, it is a pleasure to meet you! I would like to start our conversation right from the beginning of your story with opera. Who introduced you to this marvellous art form? Was it love at first sight? I have a father who is a big amateur of Chinese song singing. As an amateur he […]

Boris Pinkhasovich

Dear Boris, it’s a pleasure to meet you! Thank you for having accepted our invitation! You were supposed to make your Scala debut as Enrico, but instead, you made your anticipated debut as Marcello in La Bohème. How was it to make your debut at the Teatro alla Scala as a jump in? Was the pressure higher? What were your thoughts before you stepped onto a stage with such a […]

Fabio Sartori

Dear Mr. Sartori, thank you for having accepted our invitation. It is a pleasure for us to be having this conversation! Last month we could see you interpreting the role of Jacopo Foscari in a new production by Alvis Hermanis at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. You have already sung this role multiple times. […]

Paolo Petrocelli

Dear Mr Petrocelli, it is a pleasure to be able to chat with you and I would like to express my sincere congratulations for your entire career, but especially for your most recent achievements. The first thing that came through my mind when I read your biography was: what made you focus on the opera in […]

Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Dear M° Ciampa, thank you for having accepted our invitation! It cannot pass unnoticed the fact that you are one of the most active conductors of the opera world’s panorama at the moment: you managed to lead the rehearsals for Adriana Lecouvreur in Parma while conducting a production of Don Pasquale and now, you have […]

Paolo Arrivabeni

Dear M° Arrivabeni, thank you for accepting once again to be interviewed for OPERA Charm Magazine right after adding the 72nd title to your repertoire: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly! What are the challenges this title poses for a conductor, should there be any after a career such as yours, with so much experience?  Taking on a new title is […]

Carmen Giannattasio

Dear Carmen, it is such a pleasure for us to chat with you right before your debut in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin as Tatiana! We cannot help but wonder what is your story with the Russian language and literature? What was born first: the love for opera or for the Russian literature? First, it was Russian and literature […]

Irina Lungu

Dear Irina, thank you for having accepted our invitation. It is such a pleasure to have this conversation with you and also to be able to see you performing in La Boheme at the Teatro alla Scala. You made history as the very first singer to ever perform both Musetta and Mimi in the same […]

Frédéric Chaslin

Dear M° Chaslin, it is a pleasure to have you interviewed for OPERA Charm Magazine finally! Let’s start our conversation with the most recent and exciting production you conducted in Teatro alla Scala, Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Tell us about which edition you chose and your thoughts on the many proposed versions of this opera.  I spoke […]

Mariam Battistelli

Dear Mariam, it is a real pleasure to have you interviewed! You were an incredible Musetta at the Teatro alla Scala last month in the historical production of Zeffirelli. Congrats! Now, after a while from this experience, tell us how you felt, and how it was. It was overwhelmingly impressive. Debuting in one of the […]

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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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