Alina Bottez is a Romanian opera soprano pursuing a performing career, as well as a teacher and researcher. She has studied English and French at the University of Bucharest and Singing at the National University of Music in Bucharest and now she teaches both British literature and singing. Acting and the theatre, in general, are her passion, while her main area of research is Shakespeare’s adaptation into music, which was the topic of her doctoral thesis.
Puccini’s Tosca is based on Sardou’s play, which observes Aristotle’s unity of time as its action unfolds over eighteen hours on 17-18 June 1800. The ...
It is a privilege to attend a performance of The Phantom on Broadway in 2018, when it is celebrating 30 years since its premiere – the only Broadway s...
The titular character of Ariosto’s poem is the Roland of the French and English mediaeval romances. The Italian poet’s sixteenth century epic unfolds ...
Otto Schenk’s production is by now a classic. Having premiered in 1972, it is one of the longest-running opera productions in the world. No wonder, th...
It seems that the tumultuous fate of Somma’s libretto, moved to three different settings, was not enough. Director Erath makes the whole action of the...
The Rocky Horror Show was born, in 1973, as a direct consequence of the tumultuous sexual revolution that peaked at the end of the 60s. Its English au...
Kafka’s The Trial is one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century and one of the masterpieces of German prose, albeit by a Bohemian Jew...
For this performance, the Szekspirowski took yet another shape, as an amphitheatre, created for the audience in the space that is usually upstage and backstage
