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TCBO: “A SPASSO NEL TEMPO” WITH DON GIOVANNI ACCORDING TO ALESSANDRO TALEVI

After last season’s Le nozze di Figaro, the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy signed by the Italian-South African director and with Martijn Dendievel on the podium continues The new premiere production of the “dramma giocoso” stars Nahuel Di Pierro, Davide Giangregorio, Olga Peretyatko, René Barbera and Karen Gardeazabal. He is an eternal seducer conquering the women of […]

Lyric Opera of Chicago Names Karen Slack as Artist-in-Residence

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Karen Slack will be the Lyric Unlimited’s newest Artist-in-Residence. In her new role, the soprano will perform during the annual “Sunday in the Park with Lyric” concert on August 25, 2024 and will also host the program “KiKi Konvos” as part of the Opera Insights series. She will […]

Deutsche Oper Berlin Awards Peter Seiffert Honorary Membership

The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced that Peter Seiffert will be awarded an honorary membership. The company said, “Over 300 performances in 26 roles and almost four decades at and for the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Tonight, 22 May 2024, after the first act of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre”, we award Kammersänger Peter Seiffert an honorary […]

Ailyn Pérez Joins Askonas Holt for General Management

Ailyn’s 2023/24 season is bookended by appearances as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly. September brought her first performances in the role at Teatro di San Carlo, and she revisits it this July at Teatro Real de Madrid following additional appearances at Houston Grand Opera in January. This season saw an additional role debut for Ailyn singing the […]

LA OPERA PRESENTS RENÉE FLEMING IN RECITAL ON JUNE 15

On June 15, LA Opera will present soprano Renée Fleming, one of the greatest artists of our time, in recital with pianist Inon Barnatan. The recital features an adventurous program of music spanning three centuries, including arias from Handel’s Atalanta, Massenet’s Manon and Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, classic songs by Strauss, Hahn and Canteloube, music from Howard Shore’s soundtrack score for The Lord of […]

Teatro Real Announces 2024 Award Winners

For the third year in a row, the Teatro Real is set to hand out awards for artistic merit. This year the company will award conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, director Robert Wilson, sopranos Saioa Hernández and Sara Blanch, and baritones Leight Melrose and Martin Winkler at a ceremony on May 22. The evening will showcase performances by […]

Katharina Wagner reappointed Artistic Director of the Bayreuth Festival until 2030

The stage director and manager Katharina Wagner, great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner, will remain at the helm of the Bayreuth Festival until 2030, it was announced at noon today. Katharina Wagner became co-director of the event in 2008 together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier, until she took over the directorship exclusively in 2015; due […]

Rossini in Wildbad season 2024

ROSSINI IN WILDBAD announces the casts of all productions at the annual press conference. 2024 we celebrat the 35th Jubilee Festival from 18-28 July. After small beginnings 1989 the Belcanto Opera Festival has earned remarkable international reputation for repertory and artist discoveries. The main production Le Comte Ory (Paris, 1828) is led by the team Jochen […]

Staatsoper Unter Den Linden’s 2024-25 Season

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Luca Salsi and Anna Netrebko team up for Verdi’s “Nabucco.” Ivan Magrì, Marina Prudenskaya, and René Pape join them. Anastasia Bartoli also performs. Bertrand de Billy conducts the new production by Emma Dante. Performance Dates: Oct. 2-26, 2024 Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” receives a new production featuring multiple casts. […]

Slovakian Soprano Ľubica Rybárska Dies at 65

Slovakian soprano Ľubica Rybárska has died at the age of 65. Born on July 13, 1958, in Martina, she went on to study singing at the Conservatory in Žilina and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Following her studies, she began her career in 1983 when she became a member of the Slovak […]

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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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