Gloria Tronel
French-Romanian coloratura soprano Gloria Tronel has been a member of the Royal Danish Opera's Young Artist Program during the 2020 until 2022 seasons. Recent and upcoming engagements include Praskovya Ossipovna/Soprano in the Kazan Cathedral (Shostakovich's The Nose), Un ballo in Maschera - Oscar, multiple workshops with excerpts from works such as Hamlet, Le Dialogue des Carmélites, Der Rosenkavalier, Rinaldo, Flight, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Le Grand Macabre. Also, two engagements with the Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento to sing their New Year's Concert tour conducted by Alexander Mayer and Mozart's Exultate, Jubilate conducted by Giordano Bellincampi. She went back to Copenhagen to sing in Kasper Holten's production of Amadeus by P. Shaffer at the Royal Danish Opera in the beginning of 2023 (Katerina Cavalieri), and in August she performed again with Giordano Bellincampi and the Aalborg orchestra in an open air concert. Gloria recently won international critical acclaim for her house debut at the Opéra de Paris with the challenging role of Leticia Meynar in the French premiere of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by the composer himself.
Gloria Tronel grew up in a musical family and began her musical studies at the Jacques Thibaud Conservatory in Bordeaux, France. From an early age, she studied piano, classical dance and sang in the children's choir of the National Opera of Bordeaux. These experiences naturally led her towards lyrical art. Along with her singing studies at the National University of Music in Bucharest, she has been collaborating since 2015 with the Comic Opera of Bucharest, where she performs roles such as The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), and Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor).
Gloria also participated in the new production of the children's opera Puss in Boots (title role) by Romanian composer Cornel Trailescu at the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca. Among her other projects, she had numerous concerts in Romania, but also in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Rotterdam. She performed the solo soprano part in Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Mass in B minor and a Recital of French repertoire arias with the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2017, she received her Master of Arts in Music with highest distinctions from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium. In September 2018, she made her debut as Jemmy in G. Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell in Switzerland and continued the year by joining the European Opera Academy in Florence, Italy, where, to conclude her studies, she performed The Queen of the Night for a children's performance of Die Zauberflöte at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Gloria was invited by Holland Opera to sing for the Koningsdag celebration in front of the Dutch Royal Family in April 2019. After this performance, she joined the Opera2Day/The National Theater production of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, directed by Theu Boermans on tour in the Netherlands, where she played the role of Katherina Cavalieri.
In 2019, Gloria won Second Prize in the International Singing Competition Triomphe de l'Art in Brussels and was invited to be one of the first three young singers in the Royal Danish Opera's new Young Artists Program for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons where, among other projects, she was scheduled to perform in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky's production as the Queen of the Night.
In the summer of 2023, Gloria won the First Great Award at the Manhattan International Music Competition in New York, where she performed at Carnegie Hall for the competition's Gala, she also won the First Prize at the Mimas Festival Singing Competition on the island of Procida, and most recently she won the Jessica Pratt Prize personally donated by Jessica Pratt as President of the Jury at the Ottavio Ziino International Singing Competition in Rome in September. In October, Gloria won 3 awards at the International Georges Enesco Paris Competition, the Grand Prix Georges Enesco, the Colonne Orchestra Prize and the Brasov Opera Prize that will both include a concert and a production in their following season. Gloria has recently made her debut at the Opéra de Paris and won international critical acclaim for her interpretation of the demanding role of Leticia Meynar in the French premiere of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by the composer himself.
- Date multiplelun 13 genBolzano13 gen 2025, 19:00 – 23:00Bolzano, Via Hermann von Gilm, 1/A, 39100 Bolzano BZ, Italia
- Date multiplemar 14 genBolzano14 gen 2025, 19:00 – 23:00Bolzano, Via Hermann von Gilm, 1/A, 39100 Bolzano BZ, Italia