Ramona Zaharia
Romanian-born mezzo-soprano studied at the George Enescu Academy in Bucharest and won numerous singing competitions. She was a member of the Timisoara Opera Company singing roles such as Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Prince Orlofski (Die Fledermaus), Fenena (Nabucco), Witch (El amor brujo) and Principessa di Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur). Ramona has made guest appearances at opera houses in Cluj-Napoca, Iaʂi, Bucharest, Luxembourg, Brussels, Riga, Seoul, Moscow, Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg. In her star role as Carmen she appeared at the Opera Festival in Steinbruch, St Margarethen, Latvian Opera Riga, Stuttgart Opera, and Deutsche Opera Berlin. In 2018/19 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Maddalena (Rigoletto). She has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble since the 2014-15 seasons where she made a celebrated debut as Dalila in Samson et Dalila alongside Carmen.
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Arlene Belli
Italian Mezzo with Middle-eastern discendent, graduate of the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome, winner of the Sybil Tutton Opera Award 2021 and of the first prize in 2018 at the Simone Alaimo Competition, semifinalist in both the 2019 Handel Singing Competition (London) and the International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera «Pietro Antonio Cesti» (Innsbruck); Arlene has recently completed her studies at the National Opera Studio in London.
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Welsh Mezzo-Soprano Eirlys Myfanwy Davies was born in Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire. A 2017 London Welsh Young Singer of the Year winner, and named Voice of the Future at Llangollen International Festival, Eirlys is a recent Young Artist graduate from the National Opera Studio, London.
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Northern Irish mezzo-soprano and Samling Foundation Scholar, Carolyn Dobbin, trained on the Opera Theatre Company Young Artist Programme in Dublin and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
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