Angela Gheorghiu

Biography

Angela Gheorghiu studies the song with the Academy of music of Bucharest. It is committed with the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden with London to sing several roles (Nina in Chérubin of Massenet, Zerlina in Don Giovanni of Mozart, Mimì in Bohemian the of Puccini) before being revealed with the general public by interpreting Traviata of Verdi in 1994 pennies the direction to sir Georg Solti, which directs this work for the first time of its life. The event is collected by Decca, for a box a video CD and edition. The immense physical beauty of the singer, her insolente energy, the esthetic risks that it takes (the beginning of Brindisi is vulgar but very expressive, the counterpart " The amo! " with the second act is poitrinée as if it were thrown violently to the face of Alfredo…), the stamp ideally verdien and controls it Tessiture role ensure to him a triumph, comparable with the first Comtesse Almaviva of Kiri You Kanawa or the first Lucia of Joan Sutherland in the same theater.

It meets the Ténor French Roberto Alagna during a production of Bohemian the of Puccini, where he sings Rodolfo. It is the love at first sight but the two singers are already married. Finally, the Soprano divorce and the wife of the tenor die of a long illness. The mayor of New York the Marie at the time of an interval of Bohemian to the Met, in 1996. Their exceptional voice and their physical beauty cause the passion of the public and the media. They then require to occur as often as possible together, asking a seal even more important than their two joined together seals. Glamor couples but capricious, they are called the “Bonnie and Clyde of the opera”. The relationship between them and various houses of opera (in particular the Met and the Opéra Bastille) is very tended.

They occur more in operas of province, where their requirements are more easily accepted. In 1999, they give two representations of the Elixir of love of Donizetti to the Opéra of Lyon, of which is retransmise on line on television. Elena daN, the sister of Angela Gheorghiu, interprets the female supporting role. Unfortunately, she dies little of time after accidental manner. Since, the couple raises his/her daughter as that which Roberto Alagna had of its first marriage.

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