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Rossini in Wildbad’s new season

The internationally renowned Rossini in Wildbad Festival, celebrated for its dedication to bel canto and the revival of lesser-known works, will take place for the 36th time from 17 to 27 July 2025. This year, the festival presents an ambitious programme of five operas, three of which are world premieres, confirming its status as a […]

Buratto Headlines ‘Madama Butterfly’ in Baden-Baden & Berlin

Eleonora Buratto is set to headline a new production of Madama Butterfly at the Baden-Baden Festival. The soprano will perform the lead role alongside the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Kirill Petrenko in a new production by Davide Livermore on April 12, 15, and 20, 2025. The production will star Jonathan Tetelman, Teresa Iervolino, and Tassis […]

Wiener Staatsoper’s 2025-26 Season

Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2025-2026 season, which will feature an impressive lineup of international stars. Among the most notable names are Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Michael Volle, Ludovic Tézier, Pretty Yende, Rolando Villazón, Federica Lombardi, Nicole Car, Freddie De Tommaso, and Juan Diego Flórez. The program includes new productions of operas such […]

Staasoper Berlin 2025-26 Season

The Staatsoper Berlin has revealed its 2025/26 season, which promises a mix of classic works and new productions. The season will kick off with an ambitious staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Other highlights include Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Das kalte Herz, and Das schlaue Füchslein, with Rafael Villalobos debuting with Un ballo in maschera. The repertoire will also feature beloved works such […]

Komische Oper New Season

The Komische Oper Berlin has announced its 2025-2026 season, which will take place across multiple venues due to the renovation of its main building. Notable premieres include Salome by Richard Strauss (November 2025), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich (January 2026), and Belshazzar by Händel (March 2026). Revivals of La Cage aux Folles and La […]

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées’s 2025-26 Season

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has unveiled its 2025-2026 season, which includes a rich lineup of opera performances, featuring renowned artists like Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Pretty Yende, and Marina Rebeka. Key productions include Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoé, and Poulenc’s La Voix humaine paired with Thierry Escaich’s Point d’orgue. The […]

Deutsches Nationaltheater new General Music Director

He will begin in his new position during the 2025-26 season. In a statement, the theatre’s management said, “In an intensive selection process with auditions, Daniel Carter was able to distinguish himself as an outstandingly suitable candidate for the Staatskapelle as well as for the ensembles and the team directorship. He impressed with his excellent […]

TSO announces European Tour

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced a European tour. The tour will happen between Jan. 27 and Feb. 9, 2026, and will see the orchestra in Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria.The tour with artists of the stature of Anna Prohaska, Bruce Liu, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Christina Landshamer. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Mahler’s Symphony No. […]

Opera Europa’s new president

Glaser is the general director of Brno’s National Theatre and was appointed the New General Director of Prague National Theatre starting in 2028.  Glaser has extensive experience in theatre direction and management, having led National Theatre Brno since 2013 and two major international festivals. Opera Europa is the leading service organization for professional opera companies and opera […]

Opera XXI Awards 2025

The Premios Ópera XXI have announced its 2024 winners which will be honored on June 17, 2025 at the Palau de Les Arts de Valencia. Some names stand out, such as, Pablo Heras-Casado, the winner of Best Music Direction, for “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Teatro Real while the Best Director award was given […]

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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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