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60TH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION VOCI VERDIANE CITTÀ DI BUSSETO

Entries are open from 27 May to 28 June 2024 for the 60th Voci Verdiane Città di Busseto International Voice Competition, organised by the Municipality of Busseto, in honour and memory of Carlo Bergonzi on the centenary of the famous tenor’s birth, under the patronage of the Ministry of Tourism, chaired by the Mayor of […]

Operalia 2024 Participants

Rolex proudly presents the 2024 edition of Operalia in Mumbai, India from Sunday September 15 to Saturday September 21 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Nurgalym Amanbay, tenor, KazakhstanEliza Boom, soprano, New ZealandLe Bu, bass-baritone, ChinaVladislav Chizhov, baritone, RussiaMonica Conesa, soprano, USA/CubaLilit Davtyan, soprano, ArmeniaVittorio de Campo, bass, ItalyGeorgiy Derbas-Richter, baritone, UkraineKonstantin […]

National Opera Studio announces its Young Artists for 2024-25

The UK’s foremost opera training organisation, the National Opera Studio (NOS), this week announces the new cohort of singers and repetiteurs for its flagship Young Artists Programme for the 2024/25 season. Following in the footsteps of NOS alumni including Gerald Finley OC CBE, Elizabeth Llewellyn MBE, Marie McLaughlin, Susan Bullock CBE and Nicky Spence OBE […]

Maestro Zubin Mehta at the head of the Maggio Orchestra in China

Just a few days after the closing concert of the 86th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival, triumphantly welcomed by a sold-out Mehta Hall, conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta, at the head of the Maggio Orchestra, embarks on a return to China more than ten years after his last visit. Thus begins the Maggio Orchestra’s announced and important […]

Belgian Soprano Jodie Devos Dies at 35

On June 16, 2024, soprano Jodie Devos died at 35. According to reports, the soprano died from cancer in Paris. Born on Oct. 10, 1988, in Libramont-Chevigny, Belgium, Devos studied at the Institut de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2014, she went on to win second prize […]

TCBO: MICHELE MARIOTTI RETURNS TO BOLOGNA WITH SIBELIUS, ŠOSTAKOVIČ AND SCHUBERT

Set between a small orchestral jewel such as Valse triste by Jean Sibelius and Franz Schubert’s last symphony known as ‘The Great’, the programme for the evening that marks Michele Mariotti‘s return to the Bolognese podium includes a page that exudes the freshness of the youthful age for which it was written. It is the […]

86TH MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO FESTIVAL

The 86th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino came to an end with the choral symphony concert conducted by Zubin Mehta: exactly two months – from 13 April to 13 June – of intense and important opera and symphonic programming, with a total of 40 performances that brought almost 31. 000 people crowded on several occasions to the […]

THE BAROQUE FOR THE 41ST MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL

The forty-first edition of the Monteverdi Festival kicks off tomorrow, with the celebrated international voices of sopranista Samuel Mariño, countertenor Nicolò Balducci, baritone Mauro Borgioni, sopranos Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli and Giulia Bolcato, and with the extraordinary participation of Cecilia Bartoli, the world’s best-known Italian opera singer, in one of her rare appearances in our country. […]

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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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