"A rare vocal phenomenon of this century" Damien Colas, La Discotheque de L'Avant-Scene Opera
"This extraordinary diva can sing anything and sing it well" Rodney Milnes, Opera Magazine
"The standing ovations had already begun in the first act for the brilliant Adriana sung by the superb Romanian soprano Nelly Miricioiu who touched our hearts in a powerful finale." Aridea Fezzi Price, Il Giornale
Lastest news and reviewsNelly Miricioiu will take part in the opening concert of London Master Classes on 4 July. The concert is dedicated to the memory of tenor Philip Langridge, who died earlier this year. The concert will also feature mezzosoprano Rosalind Plowright, bass Sir John Tomlinson, tenor Ian Partridge, cellist Ralph Kishbaum and pianist Norma Fisher as well as other LMC Associates. The proceeds will go to the London Master Classes bursary fund.
For futher information please click here to access the official London Masterclasses website.
Tomorrow's performance of Caterina Cornaro will be broadcasted live by Radio 4 Netherlands at 1 pm CET.
Are now available on Nelly's blog: http://nellymiricioiu.blogspot.com
On Saturday 20 March 2010 a concert performance of Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro will mark the 25th anniversary of collaboration with Saturday Radio Matinee.
In 1985 Nelly Miricioiu began a famous series of VARA Matinee Concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and it was there that she debuted her first bel canto role, Rossini's Armida in 1986. Over the next two decades she continued to extend her repertoire to include the great bel canto heroines like Anna Bolena, Maria Sturda, Roberto Devereux, Norma, Tancredi, Semiramide, Il Pirata. Nelly also performed verismo roles like Iris, Francisca di Rimini and most recently Adriana Lecouvreuer in 2006 as well as Verdian repertoire like Ernani and Le Vespres Siciliennes (in french).
The concert will be broadcast live on Radio 4 Netherlands.
"The event of the week for me, however, was undoubtedly the Chelsea Opera Group’s concert performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall of Verdi’s La Traviata. Gianluca Marciano conducted a splendidly paced account, and Cosmin Ifrim as Alfredo, and Alan Opie as his father, sang robustly and captivatingly. Nelly Miricioiu seemed to bring a lifetime’s experience, aptly enough, to the role of Violetta, but her vocal instrument was in impeccable form. Right to that all-important single-note affirmative dying cry, she was well-nigh transcendent."
Paul Driver for The Sunday Times
The performance of Adriana Lecouvreuer on the 28th April in Timisoara, Romania has now been rescheduled for 30th April 2010, whilst the Master Class has been canceled.
Although still recovering from a very strong head cold Nelly Miricioiu managed to wow the crowd and get an impressive standing ovation at the end of the perfomance. The overall performances from the three principals Nelly Miricioiu, Alan Opie and Cosmin Ifrim proved a success and David Nice wrote for The Arts Desk: "here was a vindication of how Verdi's masterpiece can pass in a flash given masterful conducting, how exciting it is to hear a real light Italianate tenor at a time when they're not exactly in plentiful supply and how much we can still learn from Miricioiu".
This Sunday will be an extraordinary opportunity to see Nelly Miricioiu performing with Chelsea Opera Group one of her signature roles, Violetta Valery in La Traviata, a role that she hasn't performed since 1991
Verdi: LA TRAVIATA (Concert version)
London,Southbank Centre, Queen Elisabeth Hall
21 february 2010
Conductor: Gianluca Marciano
Leader Diana Cummings
Chorus Master Deborah Miles Johnson
Violetta Nelly Miricioiu
Alfredo Germont Cosmin Ifrim
Giorgio Germont Alan Opie
Flora Anne-Marie Gibbons
Annina Joanne Roughton-Arnold
Gastone Thomas Herford
Baron Riccardo Simonetti
Marchese Matthew Stiff
Dr Grenvil John Morrissey
Giuseppe Paul Curievici
Commisioner Matthew Sprange
A new official Nelly Miricioiu blog has been launched:
http://nellymiricioiu.blogspot.com/
The blog will provide its readers with extended information on upcoming performances, rehearsals, interviews, audio and video materials and also will try to give an insight into the artist's life.
Although it was a very short appearance during a concert t the Storiani Festival, Nelly Miricioiu has had great reviwes, especially from the noted Dutch critic Peter van der Lint who said: "Miricioiu demonstrated how arias of Bellini and Rossini should be sung".
Nelly Miricioiu has been invited to perform during the Storioni Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands which takes place between 14 and 27 January 2010. Her appearances will include a concert at Muzieckcentrum in Eindhoven on 16 January, a recital of songs by Ottorino Respighi on 18 January in Tilburg and a Master Class on the 20th at Fontys Conservatorium. For more information please go to the Festival's official website.
Nelly Miricioiu and Marianne Cornetti have shared a wonderful and close friendship troughout the years. They have often sang together on some of Europe's greatest stages and on 28th April 2010 they will star, for the first time in Romania, in a concert version of Adriana Lecouvreur in Timisoara. Both singers have sung to great acclaim throughout their carreers the roles of Cilea's rivals Adriana Lecouvreur and the Princess of Bouillon and have shared the stage in 2002 in Rome under the baton of Daniel Oren.
Nelly Miricioiu will return in the principal role as the Parisian courtesan with a doomed love for the young Alfredo Germont. For details and bookings click here
Having just returned to sing an outstanding Tosca at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the internationally renowned British-Romanian soprano Nelly Miricioiu appears for a rare solo recital on behalf of the charity Hospices of Hope. Her programme will include arias from well-known operas by Verdi and Puccini and songs from Romanian composer Brediceanu, supported by pianist Ancuta Nite.
For tickets and more information please click here
After her return in Covent Garden as Tosca, Nelly Miricioiu will hold a series of public master classes as well as a recital, starting 20 August at Guildhall School of Music. For full information or tickets please contact London Master Classes at info@londonmasterclasses.com or telephone 020 8346 7088. All details about the courses and the schedule can be found here
The editor of MusicalCriticism.com, Dominic McHugh has met up with Nelly Miricioiu and interviewed her to preview her return to the Royal Opera House as Tosca. Click here to read about the upcoming production, Nelly's take on Tosca and much more.
The two Romanian divas, Nelly Miricioiu and Angela Gheorghiu will star for the first time in their careers, in the same production at Royal Opera House. They are replacing Deborah Voigt in the title role of Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. The two sopranos both came to fame in Royal Opera House productions, Miricioiu in 1982 with Nedda in I Pagliacci and Gheorghiu in 1994 in La Traviata. Remarkably they were both born in the same small town in Romania, Adjud. This production of Tosca debuted in 2006 with Angela Gheorghiu in the titile role and replaced the famous Zeffirelli production, mounted especially for Maria Callas in 1964 and given its farewell performance in 2004 by none other than Nelly Miricioiu.
Gheorghiu will sing on 9, 14 and 16 July while Miricioiu will perform on the 11 and 18 July.
Nelly Miricioiu will return to Royal Opera House in one of her signature roles, Tosca, replacing Deborah Voigt, who was scheduled to sing the role, with Marcello Giordani as Cavaradossi and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia. This is a long awaited return for Nelly who came to fame in the Royal Opera House 1982 production of I Pagliacci and continued singing in Covent Garden to great acclaim for over two decades.
After her success earlier this year as Adriana Lecouvreur with Chelsea Opera Group, Nelly Miricioiu returned with a long awaited solo recital at St John's Smith Square on May 20th. Miricioiu has sung numerous times at the Royal Opera House and has had a close relationship with the British opera scene, however this rare event marked just the second time she had ever given a solo recital in London.
The performance was received with great warmth and a prolonged standing ovation. Dominic McHugh writing for MusicalCriticism.com said: "Miricioiu's relaxed stage manner, her warm personality, innate musicality and vocal strengths combined to provide a memorable occasion, which also served to remind us that this powerful artist could and should still be singing major roles in major opera houses."
Listen to a fragment of Nelly Miricioiu's wonderful performance as Adriana Lecouvreur, this year with Chelsea Opera Group, which earned her great praises and reviews: "it would be difficult to imagine a greater Adriana than Miricioiu, who sang like a goddess..."(Tim Ashley, The Guardian)
Read Nelly's outstanding interview on her upcoming recital at St John's Smith Square, her career and her take on music, technique and operatic roles.
www.musicalcriticism.com
On May 20, Nelly Miricioiu will sing at S John's Smith Square, a long awaited performance that will include arias and songs by Donizetti, Ravel, Verdi, Bellini and Rodrigo.
Tickets can be booked at https://secure.sjss.org.uk
After her surprise appearance at the anniversary gala for HRH Princess Margareta of Romania on March 27th, Nelly Miricioiu will return to Romania for a series of concerts and master classes.
On April 22nd she will appear in a concert at George Enescu Museum, which will be followed by a series of International Master Classes between 23-29th April.
For admissions and more info please email seob@operanb.ro.
Between March 8th-15th, Nelly Miricioiu will be in the juy of the prestigious Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens. In 1975 Nelly won the first edition of the contest and since then, her artistry has often brought her comparisons with Callas, as Frits van der Waal wrote in one of his reviews: "she is being compared with Callas and this is no exaggeration. What a voice! Agility, pure intonation, wonderful pianissimo - she has got it all..". Since winning the competition Nelly has returned several times as a jury member of the Maria Callas Grand Prix. This year's other jury members will include: Peter Katona, Marina Krilovic and Cheryl Studer.
On Sunday, February 15, Nelly Miricioiu made her long-awaited return as Adriana Lecouvreur, one of her signature roles. The Times wrote: "Nelly Miricioiu, COG's favourite soprano, immediately magicked her audience with her distinctive, resinous timbre, finely tapering phrases and hidden, half-suppressed vocal sob" while The Guardian praised the performance by writing: "it would be difficult to imagine a greater Adriana than Miricioiu, who sang like a goddess and relentlessly probed the psyche of a woman who believes herself to be "the handmaid of creative genius" but whose artistry is dependent on her own unacknowledged emotional volatility. We believed in the artistry, too: some Adrianas are fazed by Racine, though Miricioiu performed him like one born to it."
On Tuesday, January 27, Nelly Miricioiu made her highly-anticipated debut in Poulenc's La Voix Humain in Maastricht, Netherlands together with the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest. The performance received a standing ovation, while Peter van der Lint wrote in Trouw: "acting with her vocal chords has always been a very strong point of Miricioiu. She used it in optimal form. Chapeau!"
Continuing her successful collaboration with Chelsea Opera Group, Nelly Miricioiu will reprise her role as Adriana Lecouvreur on February 15 at Queen Elisabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. After her triumphant debut in 2000 at La Scala, Adriana has become one of Nelly's signature roles and she continued to perform it to great acclaim in Rome, London, Amsterdam and Bucharest: "The standing ovations had already begun in the first act for the brilliant Adriana sung by the superb Romanian soprano Nelly Miricioiu who touched our hearts in a powerful finale." (Aridea Fezzi Price -Il Giornale, October 2006).
On January 27, in Maastricht, Nelly will make her debut in Poulenc's one act opera La Voix Humaine. Performed by famous sopranos like Magda Oilvero, Virginia Zeani, Renata Scotto or Jessie Norman and known for it's technical and musical difficulty it was only a matter of time until Nelly approached the score.
2008 has been a busy and exciting year for Nelly.
After returning to Romania for a concert performance of Adriana Lecouvreur, she made a triumphant debut with Chelsea Opera Group as Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth. Nelly has been long wanting to sing the difficult but exciting score of the tumultuous Lady Macbeth and she fascinated the critics and public with her gripping performance: "in the dominant role of Lady Macbeth, Romanian soprano Nelly Miricioiu was not going to allow a performance to impede some full-blooded acting as she wandered through the violins in sequinned chiffon, reading Macbeth's letter. Verdi envisaged the role as requiring a singing-actress of extraordinary character and Miricioiu, a prima donna to her fingertips, fits the bill. The voice is technically accomplished, dark-toned with a dramatic edge. She has playful quality too, notably in the banqueting scene, where Lady Macbeth feverishly exhorts the guests to raise their glasses" (Sunday Express, April 6th 2008 Claire Colvin).
Also, in 2008 she successfully reprised one of her most famous roles, Elisabetta in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, at Teatro Verdi di Trieste under the baton of maestro Bruno Campanella. On the 10th of May, Dejan Bozovic wrote for Il Gazzetino: "very moving in the role of Elisabetta is Nelly Miricioiu.......from the beginning it was beyond doubt her artistic interpretation in the role that was out of the ordinary including an excellent technique. "La Miricioiu" a suggestive actress who carries the specific qualities that are identifiable with a dramatic soprano agilities, exactly what is needed in this role in which Donizetti wrote a very difficult score for the voice".
Throughout the year Nelly has held a series of successful concerts most notably in Netherlands at Amsterdam Concertgebow and Groningen Oosterpoort, in Brussels, Belgium, at the Festival Van Vlaaderen, opening night, at Palais de Beaux Arts, in London at the Royal Academy of Music and in Norfolk at the North Norfolk Music Festival. Nelly also dedicated herself to teaching and 2009 will bring a series of Masterclasses in London, Netherlands and Romania.
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