Aura Twarowska (born 21 November 1967 as Aurora Eleonora Avram in
Lugoj
Lugoj (; hu, Lugos; german: Lugosch; sr, Лугош, Lugoš; bg, Лугож; tr, Logoş) is a list of cities and towns in Romania, city in Timiș County, Romania. The Timiș River divides the city into two halves, the so-called "Romanian Lugoj" ...
, Romania) is a Romanian
mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...
. She was soloist of the Romanian Opera in Timișoara (1997–2010) and at the
Vienna State Opera
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(2007–2016).
Biography
Twarowska dedicated herself to music when she was 6 by studying piano, mandolin and singing. After graduating from the Coriolan Brediceanu High School in Lugoj she was admitted to the Faculty of Economics of the West University in
Timișoara
), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor)
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. She kept in touch with music as a member of the Academic Choir of the
Banatul Philharmonic of Timișoara The Banatul Philharmonic ( ro, Filarmonica Banatul) is a musical institution in Timișoara, Romania. Established in 1871, it now comprises a symphony orchestra, professional chorus and various chamber groups. The Banatul Philharmonic operates in t ...
, conducted by Diodor Nicoară. Once the Faculty of Music was founded in Timișoara, Twarowska resumed her studying of singing. Following
postgraduate
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The organization and stru ...
opera
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classes with
Georgeta Stoleriu
Georgeta Stoleriu (born 19 January 1946) is a Romanian soprano who has had a career in opera and as a music educator. She has won numerous singing awards and medals, and her students have received multiple honors. She established the Yolanda Marcu ...
. She obtained her Master of Arts degree at the
National University of Music Bucharest
The National University of Music Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Naţională de Muzică București, UNMB) is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in ...
.
After a break that lasted several years she continued to study economic sciences at the Faculty of Economics within the Ioan Slavici University of Timișoara, specializing in
accounting
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and
management information system
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s. She got her Bachelors in Economics with a
dissertation entitled ''An Analysis of Managerial and Cultural Marketing Policies Applied within the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara'', thus combining her two specialties – music and economics. By uniting them again in a thesis for Grigore Constantinescu, ''A Vision over the Structures of the Musical Theatre from a Managerial Perspective'', Twarowska earned her
PhD and got the maximum of votes at the National University of Music Bucharest on 29 April 2010. Twarowska debuted on the stage of the
Romanian National Opera in Timișoara in the title role of
Bizet's ''
Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
'' in 1998. Her work includes other operas and even more vocal-symphonic pieces.
International collaborations and tours opened her way to other European theatres and subsequently led to her engagement as singer at the Vienna State Opera in 2007.
"Poveste vieneza: Cum a ajuns o romanca pe prima scena muzicala a lumii"
(A Viennese Story: How a Romanian singer made it to the first musical stage in the world) by Diana Robu, 25 April 2013 Alongside this team she debuted as Marcellina in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premie ...
'' in Shanghai, during the Asian tour of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2007, under the baton of conductor Seiji Ozawa
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*, Japanese racing driver
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.
In 2018 Aura Twarowska has been awarded the Title of Corresponding Member of the
"American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences".
Singing Masterclass, ICon Arts Transilvania Academy, Biertan, July 2021.
Stage appearances
Vienna State Opera
* Giacomo Puccini
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– ''Madama Butterfly
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It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther ...
''
* Richard Wagner
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– ''Die Walküre
(; ''The Valkyrie''), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on ...
''
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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– '' Pique Dame''
* Leoš Janáček
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- Jenůfa
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* Richard Strauss
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– ''Der Rosenkavalier
(''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...
''
* Modest Mussorgsky
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– ''Boris Godunov
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''
* Jacques Offenbach
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– The Tales of Hoffmann
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* Vincenzo Bellini
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Many years later, in 1898, Giu ...
– ''La sonnambula
''La sonnambula'' (''The Sleepwalker'') is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the '' bel canto'' tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ''ballet-pantomime'' written by Eug ...
''
* Gioachino Rossini
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– ''Il barbiere di Siviglia
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''
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ''Eugene Onegin
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''
* Pietro Mascagni
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– ''Cavalleria rusticana
''Cavalleria rusticana'' (; Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play b ...
''
* Richard Wagner – ''Der fliegende Holländer
' (''The Flying Dutchman''), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden in 1843.
Wagner claim ...
''
* Richard Wagner – ''Götterdämmerung
' (; ''Twilight of the Gods''), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled (''The Ring of the Nibelung'', or ''The Ring Cycle'' or ''The Ring'' for short). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as p ...
''
* Gaetano Donizetti
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– ''La fille du régiment
' (''The Daughter of the Regiment'') is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra- ...
''
Vienna Volksoper
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* Richard Wagner/Loriot
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He was best known for his cartoons, the s ...
– ''Wagners Ring an einem Abend''
Vienna
Musikverein
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The acoustics of the building's 'Great ...
* Ludwig van Beethoven
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– '' Ninth Symphony''
George Enescu Festival
The George Enescu Festival (also known as George Enescu International Festival and Competition), held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition hel ...
, Bucharest
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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– '' Krönungsmesse'' (2001)
* George Enescu
George Enescu (; – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history, Enescu is featured on the Romanian five lei.
Biog ...
– '' Œdipe'', Jocasta (2003)
* Ludwig van Beethoven
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– Ninth Symphony (2005),conductor Zubin Mehta
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Mehta's father was the foun ...
Carré Theatre
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*Carré (surname)
*Carré Otis, American model and actress
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*Fort Carré, sixteenth-century fort in France
*French Quarter, ...
, Amsterdam
* Georges Bizet
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– ''Carmen'', Carmen
* Johann Strauss II
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– ''Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
The original ...
'', Orlovski
Concertgebouw
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, Amsterdam
* George Frideric Handel
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– ''Messiah
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; ,
; ) is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of ''mashiach'', messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a ''mashiach'' ...
''
* Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
– Requiem
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Esplanade
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, Singapore
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – ''Le nozze di Figaro'', Marcellina
Graz Opera
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Opera h ...
, Austria
* Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ''Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ' ...
– Cavalleria Rusticana 2018–2019
Romanian National Opera, Bucharest
The Romanian National Opera, Bucharest ( ro, Opera Națională București) is one of the four national opera and ballet companies of Romania. The company is headquartered in Bucharest, near the Cotroceni neighbourhood.
History
In 1877, Romanian ...
* Georges Bizet – ''Carmen'', Carmen
* Giuseppe Verdi – ''Aida'', Amneris; Requiem
* George Enescu – ''Œdipe'', Jocasta, premiere
Romanian National Opera, Timișoara
* Giuseppe Verdi – ''Aida'', Amneris; ''Rigoletto'', Maddalena, premiere; ''Otello'', Emilia, premiere
* Giacomo Puccini – ''Madama Butterfly'', Suzuki
* Georges Bizet – ''Carmen'', Carmen
Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca
The Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca ( ro, Opera Națională Română din Cluj-Napoca) is one of the national opera and ballet companies of Romania. The Opera shares the same building with the National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca.
History
The ...
* Georges Bizet – ''Carmen'', Carmen
Discography
*Richard Wagner – ''Der Ring des Nibelungen
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'' (Waltraute), Deutsche Grammophon
References
External links
Aura Twarowska
on compendium.ro
Aura Twarowska
on Operabase
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1967 births
Living people
People from Lugoj
20th-century Romanian women opera singers
21st-century Romanian women opera singers
Operatic mezzo-sopranos