Elena Moşuc was born in 1964 in Iaşi, Romania. She studied at the College of Arts and Singing and at the George Enescu Conservatory in her home town, and during this time she made her debut as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 1991 she became a member of the Zurich Opera House ensemble.

Her repertoire includes various coloratura soprano roles in Mozart operas as well as bel canto heroines, such as Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata.

She has appeared in major venues throughout Europe – in Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, London, Milan, Rome, Venice, Verona and Amsterdam – as well as in the US and Asia. She has worked with important conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Lorin Maazel and Valery Gergiev.

In addition to her work as an opera singer, she is also interested in film music and gives crossover concerts with her project Resonance. In 1990, she won the ARD Music Competition and later received the Siola d’Oro, Premio Zenatello di Verona and Premio Verdi di Modena awards as well as the Officer of the Arts, the highest musical award in her home country. She was named Romania’s Woman of the Year 2009.

Elena Moşuc completed her doctorate in 2009 with a dissertation on “Madness in Italian operas in the first half of the 19th century”.

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