Aura Twarowska

Aura Twarowska

Aura Twarowska (born 21 November 1967 as Aurora Eleonora Avram in Lugoj, Romania) is a Romanian mezzo-soprano. Since 2007 she has been a singer at the Vienna State Opera.[1]

Biography

Twarowska dedicated herself to music when she was 6 by studying piano, mandolin and singing. After graduating from the Coriolan Brediceanu High School in Lugoj she was admitted to the Faculty of Economics of the West University in Timișoara. She kept in touch with music as a member of the Academic Choir of the Banatul Philharmonic of Timișoara, conducted by Diodor Nicoară. Once the Faculty of Music was founded in Timișoara, Twarowska resumed her studying of singing. Following postgraduate opera classes with Georgeta Stoleriu. She obtained her Master of Arts degree at the National University of Music Bucharest.

After a break that lasted several years she continued to study economic sciences at the Faculty of Economics within the Ioan Slavici University of Timișoara, specializing in accounting and management information systems. She got her Bachelors in Economics with a dissertation entitled An Analysis of Managerial and Cultural Marketing Policies Applied within the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara, thus combining her two specialties – music and economics. By uniting them again in a thesis for Grigore Constantinescu, A Vision over the Structures of the Musical Theatre from a Managerial Perspective, Twarowska earned her PhD and got the maximum of votes at the National University of Music Bucharest on 29 April 2010. Twarowska debuted on the stage of the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara in the title role of Bizet's Carmen in 1998. Her work includes other operas and even more vocal-symphonic pieces.

International collaborations and tours opened her way to other European theatres and subsequently led to her engagement as singer at the Vienna State Opera in 2007.[2] Alongside this team she debuted as Marcellina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in Shanghai, during the Asian tour of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2007, under the baton of conductor Seiji Ozawa.

Stage appearances

Vienna State Opera

Vienna Volksoper

Vienna Musikverein

George Enescu Festival, Bucharest

Carré Theatre, Amsterdam

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Esplanade, Singapore

Romanian National Opera, Bucharest

Romanian National Opera, Timișoara

Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca

Discography

References

  1. See the artist's Vienna State Opera web site profile
  2. "Poveste vieneza: Cum a ajuns o romanca pe prima scena muzicala a lumii" (A Viennese Story: How a Romanian singer made it to the first musical stage in the world) by Diana Robu, 25 April 2013 (Romanian)

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