If you're wondering where Angela is these days...

...then you should know she's in Bucharest. She was a guest at a tv show on TVR 1 (a local station) called "Danutz S.R.L." o...

Verona - Traviata - Cura

. I made a new discovery. When I say "discovery" I mean pictures attached to a performance. . Back in 2003. There was a performace...

More rumours from the Met - no more Tosca

Sieglinde updated the BLOG today. There's nothing confirmed by the MET, but curious minds can have an idea about the next seasons. . Th...

Rumours.... from the Met

. People like to talk a lot. And to write a lot. Especially now when the opera houses around the world are ready to release the 2010 - 2011...

New feature - chart of appearances

I thought of putting in a chart all the appearances I know about for 2010. There are 4 titles for the moment: Traviata, Carmen, Simon Bocc...

Another Angela

. Broadway’s very first revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC features the star-power of two leading ladies—one, an Oscar winner; the other, a ...

Puccini: opera arias - EDIT

EDIT . I did some more research. I only knew about 1 CD version of this album, the one below. But there is another one, a 2 CD version. The ...

Updates of the schedule: London and Madrid

Things start to move. So there are two updates in Angela's schedule publised on the OFFICIAL WEBSITE . . 1. One more performace of Trav...

Man made for the glory of God

And so we arrived to the last two parts of this documentary. As I said yesterday, they are about my favorite monastery, Sucevita . It's ...

The journey goes on

. Enough China, back to Romania. The journey in Moldavia goes on. These next two parts are dedicated to Voronet Monastery, the most famous...

Many bonsais and one Butterfly

I first visited this place called Chi Lin Nunnery last year. It was great to be able to get back this year. It's so different from ever...

More treasures

Part 1 - introduction Part 2 - Neamt Monastery . Part 3 - Humor Monastery . The beautiful thing about the monasteries in Northern Moldavi...

Treasures of Romania

It's a journey through Romania showing our culture, some of our most beautiful places, the religious music. It's a story of a life p...

BBC Music Magazine disc of the month

. The editors' choice for January is L'Amico Fritz . You can listen to one track from this CD on the website of the magazine . It&#...

Start making plans. Times Online helps you

. Hugh Canning for Times Online made up a list of the hottest classical tickets of the year. If you intend to travel in the Great Britain b...

Barcelona 2004

After Gran Teatre del Liceu created a YouTube page and started uploading videos I was sure that sooner or later something from Angela's...

One beautiful black dress

From the Kennedy Awards Gala in Washington DC. Both pictures are taken from gettyimages.com and they belong to CBS Photo archive . The firs...

Interview on Antena 2 - part 4

. This is the last part. In case anybody wonders why there are 4 parts, I devided them according to commercials. I hope everybody found som...

Interview on Antena 2 - part 3

You said that if Puccini was alive you would be in love with him. I’m sure that you’d manage to make him give up his bad habits. No, definit...

Rolando is back!

Not only that his name reappeared in different casts in opera houses in Europe ( L'Elisir in Vienna, Eugene Onegin in Berlin, Traviat...

Interview on Antena 2 - part 2

. Whom have you inherited this white skin and black eyes from? I inherited my father. My sister looked like my mother. Brown hair with gree...

Interview on Antena 2 - part 1

This is the first part of the interview broadcasted on December 26th on Antena 2. The other parts will follow. . Florentina Fantanaru: I’m v...