Alexandra Anușcă

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Mozart: Entführung aus dem Serail K.384. - Ach, ich liebte (Konstanze) 

Semi-final

• Liszt: Die Loreley S. 532.
• Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor  - Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapito in estasi  (Lucia)

Final 

• Puccini: La rondine - Chi bel sogno di doretta (Magda) 
• Gounod: Roméo et Juliette - Amour, ranime mon courage (Juliette) 

Biography 

Alexandra Anușcă is a Romanian soprano, born in a small Transylvanian town. She started her musical studies at the „Sigismund Toduță” Music College in Cluj-Napoca and continued with her bachelor degree at the National University of Music from Bucharest. From here, the young artist enriched her performance skills and experience in the United Kingdom at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, first as an Erasmus+ student and then as a postgraduate.

Her repertoire includes the roles of Pamina (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro), Adina (Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore), Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor), Helena (J. Sams: The Enchanted Island) and performed fragments of Donna Anna (Mozart: Don Giovanni) and the Governess (Britten: The turn of the Screw).

In the recent years, Alexandra was awarded the Ashelyan Opera Prize and the Singing Prize at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, received the Steve Elliot Award that supported her attendance at the Berlin Opera Academy in 2019 and is now a Weingarten scholar at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Here she is currently working with the well renowned soprano Éva Marton. Also, the young soprano is an alumna of the British Youth Opera Company and Canto Vocal Programs and collaborated with highly acclaimed professionals such as Steven Barlow, Harry Sever, William Kerley, Anthony Krauss, Liora Maurer, Lucy Arner, Sharon Mohar and many others.

In her free time, Alexandra loves hiking and sharing time with friends, and greatly enjoys dancing, reading and traveling as a way of self-exploration and expanding her horizons.