Marina Monzó

I think the future in opera is to put music & scene together, but in a more active way. We need stage managers who understand music & above all, who understand singers.
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by Alice Lechner
April 14, 2022
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No.3/2022

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INTRODUCTION

Do we have Rossinian Repertoire lovers around here? Then this interview is definitely the right one for you to read! La Contessa di Folleville in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Giulia in Rossini’s La scala di seta and Fluvia in La pietra del paragone at the Rossini Opera Festival are only a few of the rossinian protagonists that Marina performs exquisitely. Marina Monzó talks with Alice Lechner about her experience at the Accademia Rossini in Pesaro and also about the production signed by Jan Bosse for Il viaggio a Reims at Deutsche Oper Berlin. The secret of a perfect coloratura, what does it mean to have a rossinian voice and how to find the ideal agent at a young age are definitely subjects that will catch your attention.

BIOGRAPHY

After studying flute, she obtained her diploma in singing at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia. In 2016 she made his operatic debut at the Bilbao Opera, where she played the title role in La sonnambula. She continued her singing studies at the Accademia Rossini in Pesaro under the direction of Alberto Zedda, singing several years at the Rossini Opera Festival. She perfected her vocal technique with Isabel Rey, Gioacchino Zarrelli, Mariella Devia, Daniela Dessi, Renata Scotto, among others. Marina has sung the roles of Ines in Donizetti’s La Favorita, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, as well as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Marola in La tabernera del puerto at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, Norina in Don Pasquale and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. Recent engagements include Donna Anna debut in Don Giovanni, at the Welsh National Opera, her debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Il viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Opera Berlin. Her future commitments include new productions in Mexico City, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the Teatro Real and the Teatro de la Zarzuela.

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INTERVIEW

Dear Marina, thank you for accepting our invitation! You are now at Deutsche Oper Berlin for Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. This is a very interesting production signed by Jan Bosse and under the baton of Yi-Chen Lin. How about Bosse’s idea of Rossini’s opera? Do you think that modern productions are the future of […]

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Alice Lechner

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.

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