Nelly Miricioiu

Romanian soprano Nelly Miricioiu has had one of the major operatic careers beginning in the last two decades of the twentieth century. She is a lyric/dramatic soprano with a repertory that embraces the most powerful Italian dramatic roles and the great bel canto heroines. She studied in Iasi, a regional center in Romania, then continued her schooling in Milan. Her first appearance was as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Iasi in the mid-1970s. Stardom did not come overnight. She became a member of the roster of the Brasov Opera in Romania in 1975 and remai...