Mircea Nedelescu

The tenor Mircea Nedelescu was born in Bucharest, Rumania. At the age of five he started his education with piano and musical lessons. He sang with the Childrenis Radiochorus and Childrenis Operachorus, Bucharest. From the age of eight until leaving high school he participated in the annual classical singing competition and each year won the first prize. This led to his later decision to study singing. He started with Elena Saghin, founder of the Rumanian National Opera in Bucharest, a solo sopranist with vast international experience. He then studied at the Academy of Arts Ciprian Porumbescu, where he attended the class opera, concert and piano. He finished with a diploma. M. Nedelescu is a diversified artist, well known in his native country, in Germany, where he has been living since 1984, in Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Switzer¬land, Liechtenstein, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finn-land, Israel and Horida, USA. In addition to his stage activities he teaches voice and piano. M. Nedelescu has great natural abilities and musi-cality coupled with a broad knowledge of the med¬ical profession. Due to solid techniques of breathing he is able to sing a special legato. This technique also enables him to use an easy way of phrasing, soft and explosive, at the same time expressive in all the registers and nuances from ppp to fff. His restrained force leads to a persistence S in creative expression. M. Nedelescu's repertoire consists of folk - and clas- . sical songs, oratorio and operetta (e.g. Alfred in I "Fledermaus" byj. Stauss), Vienna Operetta Galas and operas (Ferrando in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte", Turiddu in Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana"; Ismael in "Nabucco" by G. Verdi, Faust in "Faust" by Gounod, Alfredo in "La Traviata", Tristan in "Der Zaubertrank" by F. Martin, Cavaradossi in "Tosca" and Kalaf in "Turandot" by G. Puccini et al.)