Dobrea, Gelu–Todor
No. 17
Voice type: Bass
Country: Romania
Date of birth: 19 January, 1987
Born in 1987 in Arad, Romania, he studied from 2006 to 2012 at the Faculty of Music, Timișoara, obtaining his master’s degree. He took part in masterclasses by David Crescenzi, Ionel Pantea, Mariana Nicolesco, Petru Sbârcea, Victor Dumanescu and Corneliu Murgu, and works since 2011 at the Romanian National Opera, Timișoara. He performed at the Klassik Festival Schloss Kirchstetten, at Opera Braşov, with the Arad Philharmonic and the Transylvania State Philharmonic, at the Cairo Opera House, at the Radio Romania, among others. He won several awards, for example the Great Award, Cadentza Award and Banat Philharmonic Award at the International Vocal Competition “Sabin Dragoi”, Timisoara in 2015 and the same year 2nd prize (1st was not awarded) at the “Alexandru Fărcaș” International Voice Competition, Arad. He toured in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and the Czech Republic.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die Vätergruft
Mozart: Aprite un po’quegli occhi – Figaro’s aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Rimsky-Korsakov: Pesnya Varyazhskogo gostya – Song of the Viking Guest from Sadko
Semi-final
Mozart: Madamina, il catalogo è questo – Leporello’s Catalogue Aria from Don Giovanni
Verdi: Vieni, o Levita! – Zaccaria’s aria from Nabucco
Final
Boito: Son lo spirito che nega – Mefistofele’s aria from Mefistofele
Verdi: Il lacerato spirito – Fiesco’s aria from Simon Boccanegra
Donizetti: Ah! cessate quel contento – Raimondo’s aria from Lucia di Lammermoor