Berthold Tours John Stainer. The works he edited included "Iphigenia in Aulis", "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Orpheus" by Gluck; "L'Étoile du nord" by Meyerbeer; "Il seraglio" and "Zauberflöte" by Mozart; "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini; "Der Fliegender Holländer" and "Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Euryanthe" by Weber; Mendelssohn's "Elijah"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita" and "Redemption", numerous piano albums, and many others. He also arranged scores of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for piano and voice. He was also a composer and composed a cantata for female voices called "The Home of Titania" (1893); an anthem entitled "A Festival Ode" (1893) for organ and soprano, which was
Ileana Cotrubaș study at the "Școala Specială de Muzică" school for the musically gifted. Cotrubaș made her stage debut with the Bucharest Opera as Yniold in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" in 1964. She subsequently expanded her repertory to include roles such as Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", Gilda in "Rigoletto", and Blondchen in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and began appearing in productions throughout Europe. In 1965, Cotrubaș won an important competition in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands where she won first prize in opera, lieder, and oratorio. The following year, she won a radio-television competition in Munich. Those awards, together with her great