WenMeng Gu was born on September 4th, 1992, in ChengDu, the People’s Republic of China, in a family of musicians. When she was younger, she could often hear her father, who was a tenor, give singing lessons to students in…
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Roberto Abbado, awarded the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” by the Italian Music Critics Association, is Musical Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and, from 2018, of Parma’s Festival Verdi. He studied orchestra conducting under Franco Ferrara…
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Candida Mantica is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton, and the Managing Editor of the Edizione Critica delle Opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Casa Ricordi). She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Musicology from the University of Pavia/Cremona and…
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Born in Verdi’s Land (Terre Verdiane), in Parma, Marco Spotti studied in his hometown at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, where he took his first steps towards a decisive and important career at the Music Academy. The meeting with Maestro Carlo…
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Friday, July 12th. With profound emotion, the National History Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca was hosting the first after lockdown live musical event of the city. The protagonists: great instrumentists of the Transylvania Philharmonic, such as Bence Haáz (oboe), Aurelian…
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Aurelia Florian was born in Romania where she completed her musical studies (voice and piano) at the Transylvanian University Brașov. She has won several vocal competitions, among them the First Prize at the Hariclea Darclée Competition in Romania and the…
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Annalisa Stroppa is one of the most distinguished young mezzo-sopranos, having conquered the world’s most prestigious opera houses in just a few years. She studied singing at the Conservatory “L. Marenzio” of Brescia. She is a winner of various competitions,…
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Kristine Opolais is one of the most sought-after sopranos on the international scene today, with a firmly established reputation amongst the world’s pre-eminent singing actresses, combining lustrous tone and fierce dramatic intensity. Opolais appears at the Metropolitan Opera in New…
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Despite the restrictions required by the current situation – which is managed amazingly well in Italy – the XXth Festival Verdi found its strength to reinvent itself, and, thanks to the collaborations with important record companies, will keep forever vivid…
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The National Theatre in Munich is a historic opera house, home of the Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra and the Bavarian State Ballet. In 1806, the Elector Max I Joseph became King of Bavaria, and Karl von Fischer was…
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Established as one of the leading sopranos of her generation, Ekaterina Siurina performs in many of the top opera houses across the world. Ekaterina studied at the Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts, Moscow and became a soloist with the Municipal…
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Considered to be one of the most promising Romanian singers of her generation, Rodica Vica’s virtuoso voice is highly acclaimed in her native country as well as abroad. Rodica is equally at ease with the bravura baroque style as well…
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First of all, how are you? You are one of the Opera singers that kept her distance from the social media and didn’t express much her opinion on what was going on during these three difficult months for the whole…
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