Iftimescu, Ioana-Andreea

Voice type: Mezzo-soprano/Alto

Country: Romania

Date of birth: 13 October, 1985

Currently a PhD student at the National University of Music in Bucharest, mezzo-soprano Andreea Iftimescu graduated from the Singing Department of this prestigious institution in 2008, from the class of Professor Slatinaru Maria. She continues to pursue her education under the guidance of Professor Eleonora Enachescu.

In season 2010-2011 Andreea Iftimescu made her debut at the Bucharest National Opera playing Agata in Le Cantatrice Villane by Valentino Fioravanti. She also interpreted the role of Carmen in the play La tragedie de Carmen by Marius Constant during the CHEI Festival in Bucharest and the Opera Viva Festival in Cluj-Napoca. She was soloist in the season opening concert of the Sibiu State Philharmonic, singing Kindertotenlieder by Gustav Mahler, conducted by Gabriel Bebeselea. She has played the Third Dame of the Queen from Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, L'amica from the play Amelia al ballo by Gian Carlo Menotti, Niania in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto and Meropa from the play Oedipe by George Enescu. In the 2013 George Enescu International Festival she interpreted Schwertleite from the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. In 2014 she interpreted Dryade from Ariadna auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, in a performance conducted by Tiberiu Soare with the National Radio Orchestra.

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