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JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ AS DON RAMIRO IN “LA CENERENTOLA”

Rossini’s La cenerentola will be back on the Vienna State Opera’s repertoire from Friday, 15 March 2024. In this series of performances, Juan Diego Flórez will replace Edgardo Rocha in the role of Don Ramiro. He will be singing this role for the first time at the Haus am Ring. State Opera Director Bogdan Roščić: […]

MÉDÉE at Opéra National de Paris

Possibly mythology’s most unfathomable character: Medea, the sorceress, betrayed by her husband Jason, takes revenge by offering the latter’s lover a poisoned dress and then killing her own children. Such a destiny, so often portrayed in the arts, could not but be embodied at the Opera. In 1693, Marc‑Antoine Charpentier premiered his only “tragédie lyrique”, […]

Teatro Regio Torino: La Fanciulla del West

While the first very short, silent films with western settings were making a splash on the silver screen, in 1910 Giacomo Puccini thought of transferring one of those stories of gunslingers and desperados to the prestigious stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. The result was La fanciulla del West, a completely original opera both in […]

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Vittorio Grigòlo & Aigul Akhmetshina Lead Arena di Verona’s 2024 Season

The Arena di Verona has announced its 2024 season which will be dedicated to Puccini. The season will open with Puccini’s “Turandot” in Franco Zeffirelli’s production. Performance Dates: June 8-29, 2024 Verdi’s Aida will be revived in Stefano Poda’s production. Performance Dates: June 14- August 1, 2024 Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia will be revived in Hugo de Ana’s staging. […]

SELECTED THE 14 SINGERS ADMITTED TO THE 2023 ACCADEMIA VERDIANA

Last Tuesday 5 March saw the start of the 7th edition of the Advanced Course in Verdi’s repertoire of the Accademia Verdiana, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus and the Emilia-Romagna Region (Operation Ref. PA 2023-20162/RER approved by DGR no. 2096/2023 of 04/12/2023), which this year sees the participation of 14 students selected from […]

TEATRO ALLA SCALA IN MARCH

In March, performances continue of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (3, 5, 8, 10 March) and Madina (1, 2, 7, 9 March), the musical creation by Fabio Vacchi with choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti, after which our Ballet Company will bring on tour Le Corsaire in Hong Kong and Giselle in Shanghai.Die Entführung aus dem Serail will be streamed live on LaScalaTv on 3 March.Meanwhile, anticipation […]

DIE WIENER STAATSOPER IN MARCH

After almost 20 years, Rossini’s last musical theatre work Guillaume Tell is returning to the Staatsoper stage in David Pountney‘s production. The director has enriched the production, which now features Roberto Frontali in the title role, John Osborn as Arnold and Lisette Oropesa as Mathilde under the musical direction of Bertrand de Billy, with symbolic […]

GIOACHINO ROSSINI, GOURMET MUSICIAN IS THE NEW VOLUME IN THE SERIES THE MYTHS OF OPERA

“My life is special, starting from the day I was born: 29 February 1792…”: and it is precisely on this very special date that the new volume Gioachino Rossini, gourmet musician, completes the series for children I miti dell’Opera published by the Teatro Regio in Parma. The book, written by Cristina Bersanelli and illustrated by […]

FRANCESCO MELI PERFORMER OF NEMORINO IN L’ELISIR D’AMORE

The Teatro Regio di Parma announces that the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, due to make its debut on 15 March, will be sung by Francesco Meli, whom the Teatro Regio thanks for his prompt availability. In agreement with the Theatre, John Osborn will not take part in the production due to an unforeseen […]

BORIS GODUNOV AT Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

“After the ‘Poulenc trilogy’ – Dialogues des Carmélites, Voix Humaine & Mamelles de Tirésias – Olivier Py tackles Boris Godounov, a monument of lyrical literature. In today’s geopolitical landscape, the evocation of this bloodthirsty, tyrannical tsar and the power of the Russian people takes on very special resonances…Presented in its first version, extremely condensed into […]

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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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