Angela Gheorghiu

With an instantly recognizable voice and a true diva image, Angela Gheorghiu is one of the world's best-known opera stars. Her specialties lie in mainstream Italian and French roles. Gheorghiu was born in the small town of Adjud, Romania, on September 7, 1965. Her birth name was Angela Burlacu; Gheorghiu was the surname of her first husband, an engineer whom she divorced in 1994 but with whom she remained on good terms. Gheorghiu studied with Mia Barbu at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest (now part of Romania's National University of Music), graduating in 1990 ...