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
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