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Opéra National du Rhin Appoints New Director

The Opéra National du Rhin has appointed Chrysoline Dupont as its next director. Le Figaro is reporting that Dupont will succeed Alain Perroux, who is set to begin a new position at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Over the years, Dupont has worked at the Opéra de Paris as a Project manager and at the Festival Aix-En-Provence. […]

‘Les Contes D’Hoffmann’ with Benjamin Bernheim & Kathryn Lewek

Deutsche Grammophon’s Stage + is set to present Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” from the Salzburg Festival. The stream will be presented on August 24, 2024, and will star tenor Benjamin Bernheim in his signature role as Hoffmann. Kate Lindsey, Kathryn Lewek, and Christian Van Horn will join him. Marc Minkowski will conduct the production by […]

Lisenka Heijboer Castañón Wins Götz Friedrich Prize

Dutch-Peruvian director Lisenka Heijboer Castañón has won the Götz Friedrich Prize for the 2023-4 season.  The director won for her production of John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary at the Volksoper Wien. The prize is one of the most important recognitions for promoting outstanding talent in the field of music theatre directing. […]

PUCCINI’S TRITTICO IN TCBO

It metaphorically refers to Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia in the new world premiere production of Giacomo Puccini’s Trittico in the vision of director Pier Francesco Maestrini and in the interpretation of conductor Roberto Abbado, the third homage in the season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna to the Tuscan composer on the centenary of his […]

WIENER STAATSOPER IN SUMMER 2024

Following the presentation of NEST, the Wiener Staatsoper’s new venue in the Künstlerhaus, the 2023/2024 season is drawing to a close – the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Cecilia Bartoli and the Barocchissimo programme will be performing at Haus am Ring until 11 July. We would like to thank you for the excellent cooperation this season […]

ALESSIO VLAD APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE RAVELLO FOUNDATION

Maestro Alessio Vlad has been appointed President of the Ravello Foundation with which he has collaborated professionally on many occasions and to which he is linked by personal and family history, especially for the Ravello Festival. “We are very happy for this further recognition of our highly appreciated artistic director,” Michele Guerra and Luciano Messi, […]

Artistic Season 2024-2025 TEATRO CARLO FELICE DI GENOVA

INAUGURATION OF THE OPERA AND BALLET SEASON The Opera and Ballet Season opens with a joint inauguration featuring the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova and the Teatro Nazionale di Genova. On the programme will be the double performance of Turn of the Screw, a tale by Henry James translated and adapted for the prose […]

OPERA DE PARIS OPEN 24/25 SEASON: FALSTAFF, MADAME BUTTERFLY & FAUST

To open the 24/25 season, three operas will return to the Opéra Bastille in September: FALSTAFFGiuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff will open the season, directed by Dominique Pitoiset and set in London at the beginning of the 20th century, from 10 to 30 September. Under the baton of conductor Michael Schønwandt, Ambrogio Maestri will reprise the role […]

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to Present ‘Omaggio a Verdi e Donizetti’

The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma is set to present “Regnava nel silenzio. Omaggio a Verdi e Donizetti” at the Caracalla Festival. The concert will be dedicated to the two famed composers and will showcase the “Fabbrica” – lo Young Artist Program del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma” on June 26, 2024. The program will include music from “Anna Bolena,” […]

Angers Nantes Opéra Announces New Artistic & General Director

Alexandra Lacroix has been named as the new General and Artistic Director of Angers Nantes Opéra. She will succeed Alain Surans as of Sept. 1, 2024. Lacroix will assume the role full-time as General and Artistic Director from January 1, 2026. Lacroix is the co-founder of the Cie MPDA and she has written the libretto […]

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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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