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STEFANO LA COLLA RETURNS AT THE LA MONNAIE/ DE MUNT FOR PUCCINI’S TURANDOT

Performances on June 14th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 21th, 23th, 25th, 27th, 28th, 30th and July 6th, 2024. One hundred years after Giacomo Puccini’s death in Brussels, La Monnaie presents a new production of the opera he hoped to finish there.  Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels in 1924, leaving the score of his last opera unfinished. […]

FROM NAPLES TO BUENOS AIRES WITH ANDRÈS OROZCO-ESTRADA AND THE RAI ORCHESTRA

It is dedicated to the folklore of Italy and Argentina the second appointment of ‘Rai Orchestra Pops’, the concert cycle of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra that explores the boundaries between classical language, symphonic writing, ethnic music, crossover and swing. Entitled Da Napoli a Buenos Aires, the evening is scheduled for Friday 14 June at […]

As part of the 86th Maggio Festival, the Maggio Elettrico returns

Five years after the last performance, Maggio Elettrico is back: a renewal, then, of the collaboration between the Teatro del Maggio and the Centro Tempo Reale, founded by Luciano Berio in 1987 and aimed at a multifaceted approach to research in the variegated field of electronic music and sound arts. Two evenings – Tuesday 11 […]

NEW PRODUCTION OF ‘COSÌ FAN TUTTE’ AT THE WIENER STAATSOPER

The premiere of Così fan tutte on 16 June 2024 completes the circle of new productions of the three works – Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte – that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte created together. The opera, which premiered in Vienna in 1790 and centres on the bet […]

Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Carlo Felice Genova

The Opera Season 2023-2024 of the Opera Carlo Felice Genoa closes with one of Gioachino Rossini’s most famous titles: Il barbiere di Siviglia – a comic drama in two acts to a libretto by Cesare Sterbini from the play by Pierre Beaumarchais – will be staged on Friday 14 June at 8.00 p.m.. Conducted by […]

TCBO: WAGNER’S FIRST ‘RING’ DIRECTED BY OKSANA LYNIV

For the first time, Oksana Lyniv, the first woman on the podium in Bayreuth in the history of the festival dedicated to the German composer’s operas and Music Director of the theatre that has become a temple of the Wagnerian cult in Italy: the Comunale di Bologna, will be tackling Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des […]

Werther returns to La Scala

The enormous literary success that Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther encountered after its publication in 1774 immediately inspired numerous musicians who transposed the story of the love triangle.  But the most effective translation into music was that of Jules Massenet which, despite the initial difficulty in finding a stage for its debut – the […]

Dubai Opera Announces Record-Breaking Numbers in 2023-24

The Dubai Opera has announced that its 2023-24 season featured a record-breaking 25,000 audience members. Per an official release, that number represents the highest since the venue opened in 2016. It is also the first season under new General Director Paolo Petrocelli. The season featured over 100 productions and 200 performances with such organizations as […]

The Great Italian Opera World Heritage Site

The Ministry of Culture celebrates Italian Opera with an extraordinary event at the Arena di Verona, broadcast worldwide by RAI. Opera singing will be the protagonist, with 160 orchestra professors and 300 choir artists from the Italian lyrical symphonic foundations. And with the extraordinary participation of Maestro Riccardo Muti. In a single evening, in the […]

Medici.tv to Stream Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night

Medici.tv will stream the Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night Concert on June 7, 2024. The concert will feature conductor Andris Nelsons and soprano Lise Davidsen, who takes on arias from “Tannhäuser” and “La Forza del Destino.” This year’s program will also focus on popular works from the 19th and 20th centuries that highlight Europe’s rich musical […]

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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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