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Bayerische Staatsoper Announces Cast Change for ‘Tosca’

The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its production of Puccini’s “Tosca” on June 3, 2024. The company said that Luca Salsi will sing the role of Scarpia replacing Ludovic Tézier. Salsi recently performed the role at the Teatro Regio di Parma and has performed Scarpia at the Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Salzburg […]

Redemptio: New season of Les Arts

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is adding 10 new titles to its lyric repertoire in its 19th season, a journey through 417 years of music history, from Monteverdi’s ‘L’Orfeo’ (1607) to the premiere of Francisco Coll’s ‘City Without Sleep’ (2024) in London. The regional secretary for Culture and Sport, Paula Añó, today presided […]

TOSCA IN STREAMING ON OPERAVISION

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini will be broadcast on Friday 31 May at 8 p.m. on operavision.eu, Opera Europa’s free streaming platform supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, which was created with the aim of creating an international community of viewers from all over the world. The opera, with Italian and English subtitles, will […]

Sonya Yoncheva Announces New Charity for Young Musicians in Bulgaria

Sonya Yoncheva has announced a new charity initiative for young musicians alongside the State Opera Plovdiv. The soprano took to social media and said, “I would like to inform you that together with the State Opera Plovdiv I am starting a charity initiative for young musicians: all students from my former school of Music ‘Dobrin […]

Leah Hawkins Wins 2024 Beverly Sills Award

The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Leah Hawkins the winner of the 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers. In  a statement the soprano said, “I am extremely honored and grateful to be the 2024 recipient of the Beverly Sills Award and to join this […]

WIENER STAATSOPER IN JUNE AND JULY

With the last premiere of the 2023/2024 season, Così fan tutte on 16 June 2024, director Barrie Kosky and conductor Philippe Jordan conclude their joint Mozart-Da Ponte cycle. June also brings a varied programme, including performances of Turandot, again with the celebrated premiere Turandot Asmik Grigorian, Salome, Nabucco and Falstaff. The Vienna State Ballet dances […]

IN NEW YORK FESTIVAL VERDI DAY AND IFFV SPRING GALA

Two days dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, Parma and its excellence, organised by the Teatro Regio di Parma together with ENIT USA, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, International Friends of Festival Verdi, the Emilia-Romagna Region, APT Servizi Regione Emilia-Romagna, the UNESCO Foundation Parma Creative City of Gastronomy, Parma Food Valley and Parma Quality Restaurants. […]

Death of Hugues Gall, former director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève

The Grand Théâtre regrets to announce the death of Hugues Gall, director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 1980 to 1995, who passed away during the night of 24 to 25 May 2024. During his tenure, Hugues Gall brought particular glory to the institution, endowing it with a genuine reputation and underlining its excellence […]

60TH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONGREEN VOICES CITY OF 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 birth of the famous tenor, under the patronage of the Ministry of Tourism, chaired by the […]

86th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival

The programme of the 86th Maggio Musicale Festival is enriched with the proposal of a dance performance staged in the Mehta Hall on 30 and 31 May at 8 p.m. – The Trilogy of Ecstasy. The project, devised by Roberto Zappalà with the collaboration of Nello Calabrò, is a major co-production between the Fondazione Teatro […]

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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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