Kolarac Hall
November 27, 8:00 p.m.
RTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor BOJAN SUĐIĆ
IRINA IORDACHESKU, soprano
Programme: The Great Anniversary and the Great War
Richard Strauss – Don Juan; Three Last Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 3 Pastoral
Soprano Irina Iordachescu was born in Bucharest, in a family of musicians. Her father is the Romanian baritone, Dan Iordachescu.
She is a laureate of international singing competitions such as G. B. Viotti – (Italia) – Prize Cesare Bardelli; Sylvia Geszty (Spain) – Third Prize; Maria Callas (Greece) – Third Prize; Vincenzo Bellini (Italia) – Second Prize; IVC s’Hertogenbosch (Holland) – Third Prize & Prize of the Public, Alfredo Giacomotti (Italia) – Second Prize.
Her repertoire includes main roles like Lucia – Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti, Gilda – Rigoletto by G. Verdi, Norina – Don Pasquale by G. Donizetti, Adina – L'elisir d'amore by G. Donizetti, Fiordiligi – Cosi fan tutte, Pamina – Die Zauberflote, Susanna – Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart, Musetta – La Boheme by G. Puccini, Valencienne – Die Lustige Witwe by F. Lehar, Liu – Turandot by G. Puccini, Violetta Valery – La Traviata by G. Verdi, Mimi – La Boheme by G. Puccini, Micaela – Carmen by G. Bizet and 27 Vocal-Symphonic works.
Soprano Irina Iordachescu has performed main roles in opera productions and concerts at the following theaters, concert halls and festivals: Teatro alla Scala / Milano, Teatro Dante Alighieri / Ravenna, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini / Catania (Italia), Glyndebourne Opera Festival (England), Sankt Margarethen Opernfestspiele (Austria), Isaac Stern Carnegie Hall / New York (USA), Teatro Perez Galdos / Las Palmas & Auditorium Concert Hall in Barcelona (Spain), Bucharest National Opera & Romanian George Enescu Philharmonic (Romania), State Operas in Sofia, Russe, Plovdiv & Varna (Bulgaria), Bergen Opera (Norway), Vaasa City Concert Hall (Finland), Thessaloniki Great Concert Hall (Grece), P. I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow & Philharmonic Great Concert Hall in Sankt Petersburg (Russia), Philharmonic Concert Hall in Mulhouse (France), Salle Flagey-Bruxelles & Theater Capitole Gent & SB–Vlaamse Opera Theater Antwerpen (Belgium), State Opera House / Almaty (Kazakhstan).
Outside Romania, she had the opportunity to sing with famous conductors like Riccardo Muti, Sir Neville Marriner, Roberto Abbado, Paul Nadler, Julian Kovatchef, Marco Boemi, Mihail Tatarnikov, Cyril Diederich, Kirill Karabits, Ivan Anguélov, with great stage directors like Ermanno Olmi, Cristina Muti, Renzo Giacchieri, Plamen Kartaloff etc.
