Teodor Ilincăi - a tenor with an international career, the youngest in the Romanian Music School.

Gabriel Bebeșelea - one of the most gifted members of the Romanian School for Conductors in Cluj.

The former, The Soloist of the Year in 2009 (VIP Gala Awards), the winner of the Ludovic Spiess prize, awarded by the Romanian Music Forum in 2010, in 2013 he received the Award of Excellence from the Elite Art Club Unesco Romania, for being a cultural ambassador for Romania all over the world, winner of the International Singing Contest Francisco Viñas (Barcelona, 2010). The latter was awarded the prize for The Best Conductor during the 2013-2014 Season at the Gala of the Prizes of the Romanian National Opera Houses, he is Chief Conductor of the Romanian National Opera House in Iaşi, Principal Conductor of the Sibiu Youth Orchestra as well as IconArts Ensemble (2009), he won the First Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition (Bucharest 2010).

Parallel careers

Teodor Ilincăi - for the last five years he has been very often on the international opera stages. He made his unexpected debut firstly in 2009 at the Hamburg Opera (he sang Macduff from Verdi's opera, Macbeth) and then at the famous Royal Opera House in London singing Rodolfo from Puccini's La Bohème, an unforgettable performance which gave him the chance to travel around the world.

Gabriel Bebeșelea - for the last five years he has been around great conductors; he graduated the Conducting Masterclass courses given by Konrad von Abel (Sergiu's Celibidache's assisant for 10 years) and Michail Jurowski's (main conductor of Westdeutsche Rundfunkorchestra Köln) and he did an internship with the world renowned Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Presently, besides his conducting activities, he started his Postgraduate Degree at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

First meeting

Teodor Ilincăi and Gabriel Bebeșelea met at the same concert - as far I as know - just once: right before the the Gala Verdi performance hosted by the Radio Hall, when Teodor Ilincăi's professionalism and the marvelous A-natural (he was singing Di quella pira, not transposed) really impressed the conductor; Gabriel Bebeșelea won the tenor's admiration with his fluid tempos and the interest he watched him with. It was also the moment when I invited them to a special edition of An evening at the Opera. The invitation has remained open until now when, finally, our schedule enables us to meet again: Tuesday, 25^th November, starting at 19:30 - online in FM Audio and Video on Radio Romania Music.