From Covent Garden and Deutsche Oper to the Radio Hall, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose returns on the Bucharest stage
Friday, 21 May 2010 , 19.00

The Bucharest audience will enjoy the privilege of seeing Ruxandra Donose once again alongside the National Radio Orchestra conducted by Horia Andreescu, at the Radio Hall, on Friday, May 21st at 7 p.m.. This season, after a series of concerts and performances that have taken her on many stages around the world, among which Covent Garden – London, Deutsche Oper – Berlin, the famous mezzo-soprano returns to the Radio Hall in Bucharest with a musical piece, which is new to her and the audience, La Mort de Cléopâtre by Berlioz. The artist confessed that she was anxious to meet the Bucharest audience once again, whom she had seldom met recently; the last appearance in a vocal symphony concert in Bucharest having taken place during the 2001-2002 season, at the Athenaeum, with the works Nun will die Sonn' hell aufgeh'n by Mahler. The programme of the concert also comprises the Tragic Overture by Brahms and the Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25
Mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose has an international career which takes her all around the world, on the most important stages such as: the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Bastille Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semper Oper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Zürich Opera, the Teatro Regio (the Royal Theatre) in Turin, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Opera, etc.

The artist’s repertoire includes over forty-five leading opera roles, numerous works from the vocal symphony repertoire and hundreds of lieder. Among the opera roles we mention: Carmen, Charlotte (Werther), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata), Sesto (Giulio Cesare and Clemenza di Tito), Idamante (Idomeneo), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Cenerentola (Cinderella), Rosina ((Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione), Adalgisa (Norma), Nicklausse (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Poppea, Romeo (Montagues and Capulets), Melisande, Varvara (Káťa Kabanová), Pierotto (Linda di Chamonix), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Conception (L'heure espagnole), L'Enfant (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust). Ruxandra Donose often performs vocal symphony works such as: Shéhérazade by Ravel, Les nuits d'été by Berlioz, Symphony No. 2, Horn solo, Das Lied von der Erde, Nun will die Sonn' hell aufgeh'nby Mahler, Il Tramonto by Respighi or Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven.

She has worked together with notorious conductors such as Sergiu Celibidache, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Antonio Pappano, Donald Runnicles, Pierre Boulez, Georges Prêtre, Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Jurowski, Simone Joung, Alberto Zedda or Mariss Jansons, and with partners among whom are Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Bryn Terfel, Rolando Villazon, Ramon Vargas, Marcelo Alvarez, Vesselina Kasarova, Adrienne Pieczonka, Nathalie Dessay, Feruccio Furlanetto, Renato Bruson, Bo Skovhus, Edita Gruberová, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Alfredo Krauss, Leo Nucci and Piotr Beczała.

Translated by Mirona Palas and Alina-Olimpia Miron
MA students, MTTLC, Bucharest University

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