*******
Romanian soprano, Irina Iordachescu, made her La Scala debut in 2007 as ZEYNO KARI in “Teneke” by Fabio Vacchi. Ermanno Olmi directed, Maestro Roberto Abbado conducted. In the 2010 season, Irina sang LIU in Sofia. She will return to Sofia to sing NEDDA and GILDA. In July and August of 2009, Irina sang GILDA in the Sankt Margarethen Festival in Austria. In November 2007, in Las Palmas and Ravenna, soprano Irina Iordachescu sang the role of IRENE from ‘Il ritorno di Don Calandrino’ by Domenico Cimarosa, an opera recently discovered by Maestro Riccardo Muti. The opera had the international premiere in the spring of 2007, in Salzburg. Maestro Riccardo Muti took the production on tour to Las Palmas at the TEATRO PEREZ GALDOS, Ravenna, Pisa and Piacenza followed in December 2007. Since 2005, soprano Irina Iordachescu has been a soloist of the Bucharest National Opera. At the Bucharest Opera, Ms. Lordachescu has sung LUCIA from Lucia di Lammermoor, GILDA from Rigoletto, NORINA from Don Pasquale, DOMIZIA from Decebalo by L. Leo, FIORDILIGI from Cosi fan tutte, PAMINA from Die Zauberflote , SUSANNA from Le nozze di Figaro , MUSETTA from La Boheme , VALENCIENNE from Die Lustige Witwe by F.Lehar. Ms. Iordachescu has sung a significant amount of concert repertoire such as Mozart’s “Exultate, jubilate”, “Requiem” and the “C - minor messe”, Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” and “The Ninth Symphony”, Haydn’s “Nelson Messe”, Brahms’s “German Requiem”, Dvorak’s “Requiem”, G.Rossini’s Stabat Mater etc, together with prestigious Romanian orchestras, such as the “George Enescu Philarmonic Orchestra” and the “National Radio Orchestra” in Bucharest, the “Banatul Philarmonic Orchestra” in Timisoara, ”Oltenia” from Craiova “, “Black Sea” from Constanta, the State Philarmonics from Sibiu and Oradea, and from abroad: the Symphonic Orchestra from Mulhouse (France), “L’Estro Armonico” from Luxembourg, Orchestra Clasica “Ciudad de Murcia” (Spain), the State Philarmonic Orchestra from Salonic (Greece), the “Veneta” Philarmonic Orchestra and Orchestra Filarmonica di Teatro ” V.Bellini” di Catania from Italy and the “Brabants Orchestra” from Holland. Outside Romania she has performed under the musical direction of great musical directors such as Maestro Riccardo Muti, Roberto Abbado, Sainz Alfaro, Amaury du Closel, Michele Santorsola, Paul Nadler, Cyril Diederich, Claire Gibault, Ivan Anguelov, Julian Kovatchef, Daffydd Bullock, Neil Thomson, Nicolas Astrinidis, Christoph Adt , Milen Nachev, Nayden Todorov, Nino Manuli, Koen Schoots, Wolfgang Greus in Opera and Oratorio repertoire. In Romania, in the Oratorio repertoire she has performed under the musical direction of great musical directors such as Maestro Cristian Mandeal, Gheorghe Costin, Horia Andreescu, Camil Marinescu, Rasvan Cernat, Florentin Mihaescu, Ilarion I.Galati, Acel Ervin, Iosif Prunner and in the Opera repertoire she has performed under the musical direction of great musical directors as Maestro Iurie Florea, Cornel Trailescu, Adrian Morar, Lucian Anca, Rasvan Cernat, Constantin Petrovici, Vlad Conta, Tiberiu Soare, Ciprian Teodorascu, Florin Totan. In the recent years she has been invited to sing in concerts and festivals in Italy, Spain, Luxembourg,Germany,Poland,Turkey,Maroc,Armenia,Bulgaria,Greece. Together with Maestro Gheorghe Zamfir she has performed in the United States of America ( New York - Carnegie Hall and Chicago) and in Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalim and Haifa). She had the honour to perform in concerts on the same stage or productions with great artists such as Montserrat Caballe, Kaludi Kaludov, Marcello Giordani, Eduard Tumagian, Ionel Pantea, Thomas Mohr, Georg Tichy.