Music:
- George Enescu (Three melodies op.4)
The desert, The gallop, Sigh
- Ottorino Respighi (Deità Silvane, excerpts)
Il fauni, Crepuscolo
- Richard Strauss (Mädchenblumen op.22)
Komblumen, Mohnblumen, Epheu, Wasserrose
- Maurice Tavel
Manteau de fleurs, Rêves, Ballad de la reine morte d'aimer
- George Enescu (Morgengebet)
- Adrian Pop: Ainsi va-et-vient (excerpt from the seven fragments of Tristan Tzara)
- Maurice ravel: Tripatos

Sometimes, a singer is caught up in his own destiny. For the Romanian soprano, Teodora Gheorghiu, the meeting with José Carreras, during an edition of the Julian Gayarre International Singing Competition, was decisive. As a member of the jury, Carreras could not bear that the young singer did not win the first prize and insisted on offering her a scholarship equivalent to the latter. What could be more significant for a young soprano than this generous gesture coming from such a great tenor? "It was the first time anyone predicted a future for me as a singer," she says. The launch of a great career as well.

But an artist's talent often takes root at an early age. Even today, she considers singing as a spiritual act: "it comes from deep within you and then blossoms". Following a series of competition prizes including the "Queen Elisabeth" and after winning the Herbert von Karajan Scholarship, she made her debut at the Vienna Staatsoper at only 25 years old and joined their company under a contract as principal artist from 2007 to 2010. At the Vienna Staatsoper, she has played a large number of major roles such as Adele (Die Fledermaus), the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Nanetta (Falstaff), Fiakermilli (Arabella), Adina (L'Elisir d'amore), Elvira (L'Italiana in Algeri), Sophie (Werther) and Eudoxie (La Juive).

She describes the experience of her profession at this level and of being able to work alongside great artists such as Juan Diego Flórez, Neil Shicoff, Leo Nucci, Ramón Vargas, Seiji Ozawa, Ádám Fischer, Marco Armiliato, Bertrand de Billy and Franz Welser-Möst, among others, using a single word: "joy". The soprano is now considered one of the most captivating new talents on the world stage.

When she decided to leave Vienna in 2010 to embark on a career as an independent artist, the conductor Christophe Rousset approached her with the unprecedented project of a tribute to Anna De Amicis, the illustrious soprano of the eighteenth century. The album released on the Aparté label, distributed by Harmonia Mundi, contains many previously unreleased recordings of arias by Mozart, Gluck, Borghi, Cafaro and Mysliveček. It was named "Record of the Month" by Opera Magazine and the International Record Review (which praised the singer's "impressive vocality"), while the BBC crowned it "Record of the Week" for three consecutive weeks.

With so much success, Gheorghiu's artistic approach is far from the stereotypes of the bel canto diva: "I want to remain an honest artist, who serves her art, and not the other way around," she says. " I don't want to put myself forward."

It is obvious that such a love for music and singing cannot be limited only to the field of opera: on several occasions, Teodora Gheorghiu has performed in the Lied repertoire. This is followed in 2013 by a second disc entitled Art Nouveau, bringing together melodies by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Ravel and Respighi as exemplary testimonies of this European artistic movement in music.

Just as human life is subject to constant development, the artist himself is constantly going through a process of maturity. In the case of the singer, such a development is also manifested through the timbre of his voice. Thus, already during her last successes in the summer of 2014, in the role of Sophie in R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival, an evolution was announced in Teodora Gheorghiu's voice which has now taken on a more concrete form and which artistically leads her to new horizons.

After these many years of experience in the light coloratura soprano and Bel-Canto repertoire, the change of register to the lyric soprano now allows him to perform in new roles never hoped for. December 2014 will mark his debut in the Puccinian role of Mimì (La Bohème). In May 2015, she will play the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro during a tour of Japan.

Cast: Teodora Gheorghiu (Soprano), Jonathan Aner (Piano)