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Grand Théâtre de Genève new season 2024-25

The Grand Théâtre de Genève has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Tristan und Isolde Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde opens the season with Gwyn Hughes Jones, Burkhard Fritz, and Elisabet Strid in the title roles. Marc Albrecht conducts the production by Michael Thalheimer. The cast will also include Tareq Nazmi, Kristina Stanek, Craig Colclough, and Julien Henric. […]

Royal Opera House’s 2024-25 Season

The Royal Opera House has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the season. The Marriage of Figaro Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will open the season with a cast that includes Luca Micheletti, Ying Fang, Huw Montague Rendall, Jacquelyn Stucker, and Ginger Costa-Jackson. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-15, 2024 La Traviata Verdi’s La Traviata will feature two casts. […]

“I DUE FOSCARI” IN TEATRO MUNICIPALE DI PIACENZA

The Opera Season at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza continues with Giuseppe Verdi’s I due Foscari, staged on Friday 3 May at 8.00 p.m. and Sunday 5 May at 3.30 p.m. The preview for schools is scheduled for Tuesday 30 April at 3.30 pm. An opera considered among the most musically refined of Verdi’s early […]

WIENER STAATSOPER NEW SEASON

On 28 April 2024, Bogdan Roščić will present the 2024/25 season during a matinee on the stage of the Vienna State Opera. Under the direction of Asher Fisch, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra will accompany Xabier Anduaga, Federica Lombardi, Anna Netrebko, Georg Nigl, Sonya Yoncheva, Slávka Zámečníková, and Georg Zeppenfeld. Additionally, there will be a dance performance by Hyo-Jung Kang and Marcos Menha, first soloists of the Vienna State […]

Nadine Sierra and Pretty Yende, together at the Teatro Real

Two of today’s most outstanding sopranos, the South African Pretty Yende and the American Nadine Sierra, will bring to Madrid’s Teatro Real on Thursday 25 April the concert for two that they have already given on different European stages and which next season will come to Barcelona’s Liceu. With Pablo Mielgo conducting the Orquesta Titular […]

Askonas Holt Announces New Leadership Additions

Askonas Holt has announced additions to its leadership team. The company revealed that Financial Controller Susana Tierney will also take on the role of Company Secretary to her responsibilities, and Emma Beecham and Sorcha Coller were promoted to Associate Director. The news comes after the announcement of a new office for Askonas Holt in Berlin headed by […]

FRANCESCO MELI, MARKUS WERBA AND MICHELE GAMBAFOR A TRIBUTE TO THE YOUNG PUCCINI

On the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai dedicates a concert to the great Italian composer that brings together three youthful pages that are not often performed: the Capriccio sinfonico for orchestra, Preludio and Tregenda from the opera-ball Le Villi and the Messa di Gloria. The evening, not included in […]

TCBO: PREMIERE OF THE NEW DIPTYCH COMBINING PURCELL AND WEILL

The baroque opera of high dramaturgical intensity Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and the twentieth-century ballet with incisive satire Die sieben Todsünden by Kurt Weill on a text by Bertolt Brecht make up the unprecedented diptych proposed in the 2024 Opera Season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The performance, co-produced with Fondazione I […]

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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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