Maria Biesu
Mariana Bulicanu

Master of Arts


Opera Soloist at Romanian Opera Craiova from 2019 to present.

Opera Soloist at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre "Maria Bieșu" from 2010 to 2019. Collaborator with the National Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2009.

Member of the Musicians' Union of the Republic of Moldova.

PhD candidate at the University of Moldova, Humanities and Arts Department, Science of Science and Technology History.

Teaching staff at the University of Craiova, Arts Department since 2020.

Awards:

In 2022, she was decorated by the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, with the Honorary Title "Master of Arts".

Gavriil Muzicescu Award - Ministry of Culture Prize 2012.

Voice of the Year 2019 - Musicians' Union of Moldova.

Best Creation in Lyric Theater 2019 - UNITEM Gala.

Nominated for Best Soloist - "National Opera Awards Gala" 2015 Iași.

Winner of the Grand Prize and Trophy of the Maria Bieșu International Competition in 2012.

Winner of international competitions "Delphic Games" (Minsk), "Musical Holidays" (Romania), Iris Adami Corradetti (Italy), Concorso Zandonai (Italy).

She has performed multiple times at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam HET Concertghebow from 2013 to 2022 as a guest soloist, interpreting the soprano part in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Additionally, she has numerous appearances at the De Doelen Philharmonic in Rotterdam, stages in Eindhoven, The Hague, Groningen, the Banat Philharmonic Timișoara, Oltenia Philharmonic Craiova, State Philharmonic Oradea.

In 2012, she performed in concert with soprano Luciana Serra at Teatro delle Muse Ancona.

In 2012, she was invited to Astana, Kazakhstan, for the Festival of the Best Young Opera Voices of the CIS States, and later re-invited to the same festival in Voronezh in 2015 at the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre.

At the Extraordinary Opera Gala Iasi 2015, she performed on the same stage with the great baritone Leo Nucci.

In 2016, at the Festival in Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk, and in 2018, she held a recital at the Royal Conservatoire Brussels.

In 2018, she appeared in a recital at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre in Vienna.

In 2018, she performed in the three female roles in Jacques Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" in major cities such as Paris, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Aix En Provence, Lille, and Nantes.

Her artistic activity began during her student years with her debut in the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Consequently, she was employed as an opera soloist in the aforementioned institution. She followed with the role of Violetta Valery in "La Traviata," where she achieved success at the "Maria Bieșu" National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Odessa Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Lausanne Opera, Geneva BFM Theatre, Zurich, where she received very good reviews from the local press.

A particularly complex representative role in the soprano's career is the Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with which she debuted at the Varna National Opera, Bulgaria, presented for the premiere of the show, and was reinvited for the same role at the "Varna Summer" International Music Festival in 2021.

She has held numerous concerts and performed opera roles on stages in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Turkey.

She has had the honor of being invited to the "Mărțișor" and "Maria Bieșu" festivals for numerous editions.

Alongside the Maestro and Composer Eugen Doga, with whom she collaborates fruitfully, she made her debut in 2012 at the Romanian Athenaeum "George Enescu" Philharmonic in Bucharest, where she returned in 2017, Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Royal Conservatory Brussels, Ankara, Turkey, "Musical Holidays 2020" Festival in Piatra Neamț, etc

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