SIMINA IVAN - Special Guest Teacher
Simina Ivan was born in Timisoara Romania, the daughter of an opera singer and a writer.
She studied singing at the music academy in Bucharest, then took singing lessons with KS Ileana Cotrubas and KS Margarita Lilowa.
Simina Ivan started her career as a soloist at the Operetta National Theater in Bucharest, became a soloist at the Bucharest National Opera House in 1991, where she sang roles such as Rosina, Gilda, Norina, Lucia di Lammermoor.
The soprano has won numerous singing competitions: Paris, Toulouse, Nantes, Coburg, Belvedere Competition in Vienna, George Enescu Competition in Bucharest.
Simina Ivan Ensemble has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since 1994. She made her debut on the Volksoper stage (at that time under joint direction with the Staatsoper) as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, her debut on the Staatsoper stage when Olga Sukarew in Fedora followed.
Simina Ivan sang numerous roles in Vienna, including Pamina, Rosina, Adina, Norina, Woglinde, Lisa (La Sonnambula), Eudoxie (La Juive), Konstanze, Antonia, Adele, Rosalinde, Marguerite (Faust), Ophelie (Hamlet), Gretel, Aminta (The Silent Woman), Marzelline (Fidelio), with conductors such as Horst Stein, Marcello Viotti, Adam Fischer, Simone Young, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann. As a stage partner, Simina Ivan had singers such as Agnes Baltsa, Edita Gruberova, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Thomas Hampson, Neil Shikoff, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufmann.
As a guest, Simina Ivan sang in opera houses such as Hamburg, Zurich, Royal Opera House London, Munich State Opera, Toulon, at the Salzburg Festival, in her hometown Timisoara, as well as in concerts by the Bucharest and Timisoara Philharmonic, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tonkünstler Orchestra.
Her concert repertoire includes works such as Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass, Mahler's IVth Symphony, Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras as well as Carl Orff Carmina Burana and Richard Strauss Four Last Songs.
Simina Ivan also devotes herself to vocal pedagogy, gave master classes in Romania, Vienna and Jerusalem.
