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Luisa Miller at Palau de Les Arts

On August 13, 1849, Giuseppe Verdi received the libretto of the opera initially titled Eloisa Miller from his librettist Salvadore Cammarano, a frequent collaborator of the composer on works such as Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller, and Il trovatore. Cammarano had left unfinished a previous project inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, highlighting Verdi’s […]

About Last Night | Marina Viotti’s Recital

In 2005, Princess Caroline Murat founded the Gstaad New Year Music Festival in the picturesque town of Gstaad, in the Swiss canton of Bern. For years, she worked closely with Martin Engstroem at the Verbier Festival, co-founded the Verbier Academy, and, in 2001, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. Today, the festival enjoys the high patronage […]

La Traviata at the Maestro Padilla Municipal Auditorium in Almería

Verdi wrote to his friend Muzio: “La traviata, last night a failure. Was it my fault or the singers’? Time will tell.” We cannot say the same of La traviata performed on December 6th, 2025, at the Maestro Padilla Municipal Auditorium in Almería (Spain). This splendid initiative was sponsored exclusively by the prestigious Cajamar Cooperative […]

Season Opening at Les Arts with Gounod’s Faust

On October 15, the final performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust was staged in Valencia. With this production, the Palau de les Arts opens the season celebrating the 20th anniversary of its inauguration. Charles Gounod, originally a composer of sacred music, had little success with his first operas. In 1856, he persuaded the playwright Jules Barbier […]

Jessica Pratt: Delirio

Soprano Jessica Pratt’s newly released album, Delirio, is a magnificent rendition of some of the most famous “mad scenes” in the world of opera. It features arias of five characters, the title roles of Lucia di Lammermor, Emilia di Liverpool, and Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti and Elvira from I Puritani, together with Amina […]

Randall Scotting: Lovesick

Countertenor Randall Scotting’s new CD is bound to keep the listener compelled throughout all 22 songs. It is called Lovesick, and it is a collection of songs that have as a gravity pole the range of emotions that, as the title suggests, the feeling instills. The record fulfills its mission as an extensive collection of […]

Alejandro Navarrete – The 360 Artist

The 360o Artist Workbook, a new work by Alejandro Navarrete, a young opera singer, actor, and author from Chile, is quite an ambitious endeavor. Even though when you pick it up, with its whopping 417 pages, it resembles a novel, it is a workbook. The concept behind it is guiding the artist who is using […]

Teatro Carlo Felice: I due Foscari

The Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa hosted from the 31st of March through the 8th of April a new production of I due Foscari, Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic drama that revolves around the interiorized conflict between duty and paternal feelings, and although the historical setting is quite fix, 15th century Venice, the substance of the subject […]

Teatro alla Scala: L’Elisir d’Amore

OPERA Charm Magazine finally meets Teatro alla Scala. And we couldn’t have been happier about inaugurating what we hope will be a long beautiful friendship with a glorious last performance of Donizetti’s charming Elisir d’amore, with a spectacular cast. Teatro alla Scala opened for the public at its entire capacity of 2030 seats brings chills […]

Luisa Miller at Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Bologna, on June 3rd for the penultimate title of the 2022 Opera Season, Verdi’s Luisa Miller, tragic melodrama in three acts on a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) by Friedrich Schiller, back on the stage of this theater after 30 years. It’s the story of three young people, […]

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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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