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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia unveils Zarqa Al Yamama

Zarqa Al Yamama, the first Grand Opera produced by The Saudi Theater and Performing Arts Commission, one of the 11 sector specific commissions under the Ministry of Culture, was internationally unveiled last night with an exclusive event at London’s historic Goldsmiths’ Hall. Premiering to the public in Riyadh in April 2024, Zarqa Al Yamama, the first Grand Opera in Arabic […]

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Announces New Artistic Director

The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has named Pablo Arcà its new Artistic Director. Superintendent Francesco Giambrone and the board of directors, as well as Music Director Michele Mariotti, announced the news. Throughout his career, Arcà has worked as Artistic Director of the Teatro alla Scala from 1997 to 2003 as well as with the Maggio […]

LA BOHÈME DIRECTING PROJECT WITH FOUR UNDER 35 CREATIVE TEAMS

The selection of the four finalists of the call for entries for the selection of a directing project for Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème for the 2024-2025 season, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the composer from Lucca, was held at the Teatro Regio in Parma. The aim is to promote the […]

Concert by the Opera Carlo Fenice Academy Genoa

On Saturday 17 February, the Liguria Region will award Francesco Meli with the honour ‘Croce di San Giorgio‘, destined to Italian or foreign citizens who have distinguished themselves for particular merits of cultural, social or moral value. On the occasion of the award ceremony at the Opera Carlo Felice, a free concert will be held […]

IL TROVATORE DEBUTS IN BOLOGNA ACCORDING TO DAVIDE LIVERMORE

After its baptism at the Festival Verdi in September 2023 with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale, Il trovatore according to Davide Livermore also arrives on the Bologna stage. The performance, co-produced with the Teatro Regio in Parma, is staged at the Comunale Nouveau starting Sunday 18 February at 6 p.m. – also […]

ANNA BOLENA RETURNS TO TEATRO MUNICIPALE PIACENZA

The second title of Teatro Municipal Piacenza’s Opera Season, Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena will be staged on Friday 16 (8pm) and Sunday 18 February (3.30pm). The opera tragedy in two acts, on a libretto by Felice Romani, will be conducted by Diego Fasolis and directed by Carmelo Rifici. The prestigious cast features Carmela Remigio as […]

Tutto nel mondo è burla

” Malice and revenge go hand in hand when women play a vain seducer “ Created in 1893 to a libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare, Falstaff is Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera. It was the composer’s last foray into the world of comedy, with one unsuccessful exception (his second opera Un giorno di regno, which […]

Simon Boccanegra will return to the Opéra Bastille

ACCOMPLISHED VERDIANS The vocal cast brings together accomplished Verdianssuch as Ludovic Tézier, Nicole Car, Etienne Dupuis, Charles Castronovo and Mika Kares. Thomas Hengelbrock, a conductor with an eclectic repertoire and whose interpretation of Gounod’s Faust in June 2022 won great acclaim, will be conducting a Verdi opera for the first time at the Paris Opera. […]

Riccardo Muti returns to the Teatro Regio di Torino

Riccardo Muti returns to the Regio to conduct the theatre’s Orchestra and Chorus and a superlative cast of performers in Giuseppe Verdi‘s Un ballo in maschera that promises to be a must-see. The new staging – on stage for six performances from Wednesday 21 February at 8 p.m. until Sunday 3 March – is by […]

Peter Lodahl is stepping down as music director of Copenhagen Phil

During his time in the director’s chair, Peter Lodahl, together with Copenhagen Phil, has developed the most ambitious symphonic innovation in modern Danish music history, MELODRAMA – which he will continue to work as a consultant for. In addition, the Lumbye Academy has been established as the first elite education for young orchestral musicians in the Nordic region, and […]

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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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