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Opera XXI Awards 2025

The Premios Ópera XXI have announced its 2024 winners which will be honored on June 17, 2025 at the Palau de Les Arts de Valencia. Some names stand out, such as, Pablo Heras-Casado, the winner of Best Music Direction, for “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Teatro Real while the Best Director award was given […]

Netrebko’s 30th Anniversary

The 30-minute film documents the soprano’s operatic debut at the Mariinsky Theatre on April 6, 1994 in Le Nozze di Figaro and features interviews with artists who were involved in the production. Among those that are featured in the film are Vladimir Samsonov, Svetlana Volkova, Tim Coleman, Justus Frantz, Nikolai Gassiev, Elena Matusovskaya, Gennady Bezzubenkov, […]

MET’S 2025-2026 SEASON

The company will open the season in September with the New York City premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an opera based on the 2000 novel of that name by Michael Chabon, which was first heard at Indiana University last fall. The lineup also includes local premieres of Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, from […]

Muti launches Supreme Classics

Riccardo Muti has announced the launch of Supreme Classics, a new record label that will be officially launched on 19 February at the Grand Hotel Wien. The presentation will feature Muti himself and The Philharmonic Brass ensemble, who will present the new label’s first release, the album Italiana! The inaugural album, Italiana!, will be available […]

Mozart’s Requiem by Castelluci

This staged production of Mozartian Requiem Mass comes to the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 18 February with the unmistakable stamp and debut of Romeo Castellucci. Giovanni Antonini will conduct this masterpiece in the history of music written for orchestra, choir and four soloists, the latter to be played by four international stars: soprano Anna […]

Accademia di Santa Cecilia Names New President & Superintendent

The Accademia di Santa Cecilia has announced that Maestro Massimo Biscardi will be its new President and superintendent. The board of the organization noted that Biscardi received a 2/3 vote which was necessary for him to be named in the new position. Biscardi will take his new position in February 2025. Biscardi has performed as […]

Julie Fuchs & Lawrence Brownlee Lead Paris Opera’s ‘La Fille du Régiment’ Stream

On  Nov. 6, 2024, Opera de Paris Play is set to present Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment.” The production will be streamed in Laurent Pelly’s legendary production. It sets the comedy during the 1914 war rather than the Napoleonic Wars and modernizes the piece without sacrificing a single ounce of its brio. Julie Fuchs leads the cast in the title […]

Palau de Les Arts Cancels First Two performances of ‘La Verbena de la Paloma’

The Palau de les Arts in Valencia has canceled performances of Tomás Bretón’s “La verbena de la Paloma” on Nov. 2 and 3, 2024 due to the tragedy caused by historic flooding. The company said, “The Council of Education, Culture, Universities, and Employment informs that, due to the tragedy caused by DANA in the Valencian Community and as a […]

Rai Cultura to Present Three Different ‘Manons’

Rai Cultura and Rai5 are set to present three evenings of “Manon” from the Teatro Regio di Torino. The operas will be shown at 21:15 and will begin on Oct. 24, 2024 Daniel Auber’s “Manon Lescaut” followed by Massenet’s “Manon” on Oct. 25, 2024. The final opera will be on Oct. 26, 2024, with Puccini’s […]

Festival Verdi Announces 2025 Edition

Festival Verdi has announced the operas for the 2025 edition, which will take place between Sept. 20 and Oct. 18, 2025. The theme for the Festival will be Verdi and Shakespeare and will celebrate the 25th edition in Parma and Busetto. The operas that will be showcased are “Otello,” “Macbeth (1847)”, and “Falstaff”. Otello and Falstaff will be […]

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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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