• Carmen

The Romanian mezzo-soprano Ramona Zaharia is familiar at some of the world most
renowned stages among which Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden,
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Latvia Opera, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Valli Reggio Emilia
and her „home-base“ , the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, where she is an
ensemble member since the 2014/15 season.
Furthermore she was invited as guest by opera houses in Seoul, Moscow, Hamburg,
Malmö, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Bucharest, Luxembourg, Brussels, Maribor, Madrid,
Stuttgart, Copenhagen and Riga and festivals in
Ljubljana and Istanbul.
The artist had her first international appearance as Carmen on the big open air stage of
the Opera Festival St. Margarethen Austria in 2012 where she immediately assured this
role as a great success. Since then she sang it in more than 21 different “Carmen”
productions. Royal Opera House London, Latvian Opera Riga, Stuttgart Opera, Opera
House Prague, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera offered her this most
critically acclaimed role as well.
Her repertoire includes roles such as Eboli (Verdi „Don Carlo“), Fenena (Verdi
"Nabucco"), Dalila (Saint-Saëns “Samson et Dalila”), Hérodiade (Jules Massenet
“Hérodiade”), Amneris (Verdi “Aida”), Ulrica (Verdi “Un ballo in maschera”), Erda
(Wagner “Rheingold”), Dinah (Bernstein “Trouble in Tahiti”), Maddalena (Verdi
„Rigoletto“), Principessa di Bouillon (Cilea "Adriana Lecouvreur"), Federica (Verdi „Luisa
Miller”) and of course the title-role from Bizet's masterpiece, "Carmen".
She sang with world famous conductors including Antonio Pappano, Nicola Luisotti, Jordi
Berval, Axel Kober, Johannes Fritzsch, Jacques Lacombe, Antonino Fogliani, David
Crescenzi, Alexander Joel, Karen Kamensek, Marie Jacquot and others.
Ramona Zaharia also participated at the 2020 recording of Richard Wagner's "The Ring
of the Nibelung" under the baton of Axel Kober as Erda („Rheingold“), produced by the
Deutsche Oper am Rhein and released on all popular streaming platforms.
Her highly praised Maddalena from the Royal Opera House was streamed in the Cinemas
from March 2022.
Among of her future engagements in season 2024-2025 should be mentioned: “Carmen”
in Festival Zagreb, Opera House Prague and Opéra de Nice.