Adela Zaharia Since the 2015/16 season, Zaharia has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she performed as Snow Queen in "The Snow Queen", Najade in "Ariadne auf Naxos" "Lucia di Lammermoor", Konstanze (Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio"), (Mozart's "Don Giovanni") among others. In the 2017/18 season she will perform as Le Feu in "L'enfant et les sortilèges", Gilda, Lucia and Konstanze. Guest engagements include Zaharia as Pamina at the Komische Oper Berlin; Gilda in "Rigoletto" and Violetta in "La traviata" at the Los Angeles Opera. In December 2017 she gave her debut as Lucia at the Bavarian
Persian Letters texts and renewed perspectives. Particularly important were the extensively annotated edition by Paul Vernière and the research of Robert Shackleton on Muslim chronology; also studies by Roger Laufer, Pauline Kra and Roger Mercier, which put new focus on the work’s unity and integrated the seraglio into its overall meaning. Others who have followed have looked into the ramifications of epistolary form, the structure and meaning of the seraglio, Usbek’s contradictions. Beginning about 1970 it is religion (Kra) and especially politics (Ehrard, Goulemot, Benrekassa) which predominate in studies on "Lettres persanes", with a progressive return to the role of the seraglio