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PAOLO ARRIVABENI RETURNS ON THE PODIUM OF THE STAATSOPER HAMBURG FOR VERDI’S RIGOLETTO

One of the most in-demand Italian opera conductors of his generation, Paolo Arrivabeni, returns on the podium of the Staatsoper Hamburg with Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, in the production of Andreas Homoki.  Arrivabeni made his debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2019 with Calixto Bieito’s production of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, followed by Nabucco in 2021, […]

Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi at Teatro Municipale di Piacenza

It will be Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo, on stage Friday, November 10th, at 8.00 p.m. and Sunday, November 12th, at 3.30 p.m., to conclude the 2022/2023 Opera Season of the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza.The show, realised in co-production with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia and Teatro Galli di Rimini, […]

GYÖRGY LIGETI’S LE GRAND MACABRE FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE VIENNA STATE OPERA

On Saturday, November 11th, 2023, the next premiere and at the same time a State Opera premiere is on the programme: György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Belgian stage director Jan Lauwers is responsible for the production, set design and choreography (together with Paul Blackman) and returns to the Haus am Ring with this new production […]

PAOLO ARRIVABENI CONDUCTS ATTILA AT THE OPÉRA DE MARSEILLE

The collaboration between M° Arrivabeni and the Opéra de Marseille has been going on since his debut in this theatere, in 2004, with Il Turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini, and continued up to the 23/24 season with Rigoletto (Verdi, 2006), La Straniera (Bellini, 2013), Moïse et Pharaon (Rossini, 2014), I Due Foscari (Verdi, 2015), Boris Godunov […]

New production of Puccini’s Il Trittico at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Two years ago, Deutsche Oper Berlin invited Pınar Karabulut, one of the most successful acting directors of the younger generation, to stage her first musical theatre production: for Mark Anthony Turnage’s GREEK on the building’s parking deck. Now Pınar Karabulut returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and presents her first opera work on the big […]

La Traviata returns to Caracalla in Lorenzo Mariani’s acclaimed direction

Violetta Valéry like Anita Ekberg, Laura Antonelli and Marilyn Monroe: Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata in the acclaimed 2018 production by Lorenzo Mariani is back on stage in Caracalla from July 21st to August 9th. In the role of Violetta the soprano Francesca Dotto, already starring in the same production in 2019. For Verdi’s masterpiece – […]

CLIP Wave: Record number of applications for the Concorso Lirico di Portofino

The ninth edition of the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino – CLIP – starts its preliminary phase with a new and important record: 292 total registrations, which demonstrates a lively and constantly growing interest on the part of the international opera world.292 young talents will be subjected to a strict pre-selection by Gianni Tangucci and […]

TCBO: 2022 BUDGET APPROVED IN SURPLUS

Yesterday, the Steering Committee of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna approved the Financial Statement for the year 2022, which closes with a profit for the seventh consecutive year despite the difficult national and global context. The Directors and the Superintendent of the Foundation therefore express their satisfaction for the result achieved, which was not taken […]

LXXXV Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: Don Giovanni

After the opening concert conducted by Daniele Gatti, the 85th Maggio Festival gets into full swing, Sunday, April 30th at 6 p.m., with the first opera title on the bill: Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. On the podium of the Sala Grande, at the head of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio, the […]

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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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