GABRIELA POPESCU (FAIRY MORGANA)

In her first engagement at the Magdeburg Opera (1985-1992) Gabriela Popescu sang important contralto roles. She was soon invited to sing at major opera houses in Vienna (Fenena in Nabucco), Paris (Giulietta), Brussels (Smeton in Donizetti's Anna Bolena), the Théàtre de la Monnaie in Toulouse (Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier), Lausanne (Olga in Tchaikowsky's Eugene Onegin), at the Teatro Coliseo Albia Bilbao (Federica in Verdi's Luisa Miller), Marseilles (La Frugola in Puccini's Il Tabarro), at the Norske Opera Oslo (Carmen), Liège, Reims (Azucena in Verdi's Il Trovatore), Hamburg, Nuremberg (Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera) and Nancy (the Sorceress in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel).

Appearances on the operatic stage (Aida, 2003 in the Orchard Hall in Tokyo and the Festival Hall in Osaka) and constant invitations to Tokyo and all large cities in Japan (2004-2006) followed her Japanese debut (with Lieder recitals and concerts) in 2001:

In 2006, she undertook the roles of Azucena at the Metropolitan Opera in Seoul (South Korea), Fenena at the National Opera together with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Oren, and Amneris at the Daejeon Arts Center.

At the National Opera in Bucharest, Gabriela Popescu has celebrated significant successes as Amneris, Azucena and Dalila. At the 2007 international Georges Enescu Festival in Bucharest, she gave brilliant performances of arias from the operas and oratorios of G.F. Handel. Gabriela Popescu is always a very welcome guest with the Georges Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest. Her interpretations of the Principessa in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur and Strauss Lieder together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio in Bucharest, have been highly acclaimed.