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
Adina (opera) Adina (opera) Adina is an operatic farsa in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera develops the popular theme of the "abduction from the seraglio". "Adina" was commissioned in 1818 by Diego Ignazio de Pina Manique, police superintendent of Lisbon and inspector of Portuguese theatres. The plot is very similar to that of Francesco Basili's 1819 opera, "Il califfo e la schiava", for which the libretto was written by Felice Romani, and some passages occur in both librettos - a mystery which has not yet been unravelled. The opera was intended as a