Iulia Maria Dan

Last season, Dan was heard as Micaëla at Opéra de Rouen and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and as Contessa Le Nozze di Figaro at Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In concert, she performed Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with Daniele Gatti and Munich Philharmonic and with Dan Ettinger and the Israeli Opera Orchestra, as well as singing a gala concert together with Freddie de Tommaso at the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl.

Recent highlights include Desdemona in a new production of Otello at  Oper Leipzig; The Da Ponte Trilogy (Donna Anna, Contessa and Fiordiligi) the Ravenna Festival, Opéra de Versailles; the Israeli Opera; Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Gran Teatre del Liceu; Tatyana Eugene Onegin at the Norwegian National Opera; Aminta Il re pastore at the Verbier Festival; the title role of Massenet’s Manon at Oper Graz; Ofelia in Franco Faccio’s Amleto at the Bregenz Festival; Mimì La Bohème with Opera Australia on the Sidney Harbour; the premiere of Stefan Wirth’s Francesca da Rimini at the Münchner Opernfestspiele; and Gilda Rigoletto and Violetta Valery La Traviata for Romanian National Opera.

Recent successes on the concert platform include the Zemlinksy Lyric Symphony with Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen conducted by Ariane Matiakh;  Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa conducted by Marc Minkowski, at the Verbier Festival and with Staatstheater Kassel; a programme of Mozart arias at Lviv MozArt Festival conducted by Oksana Lyniv; Beethoven Cantata for the Death of Emperor Josef with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Mark Wigglesworth and Verdi Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall.

A member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden until 2021, her roles there included Micaela Carmen; Mimì and Musetta La Bohème; Gretel Hansel and Gretel; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni; Fiordiligi Così Fan Tutte; Tatyana Eugene Onegin; Contessa Le nozze di Figaro, Violetta La Traviata and Madam Cortese Il viaggio a Reims. Previous to that she was a soloist of Staatsoper Hamburg between 2015-2017 where she could be heard as Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Agathe Der Freischütz, Mimì La Bohème, Tatyana Eugene Onegin, Freia Das Rheingold, Contessa Le nozze di Figaro, Mathilde Guillaume Tell, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus and Fiordiligi Così fan tutte.  Dan was also a member of the ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she began as a member of their prestigious Opernstudio.

A graduate of the National University of Music in Bucharest, Dan is a recipient of many prizes and awards at competitions such as Most Promising Young Artist at the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition where she was also awarded the Graz Opera Special Prize and the Soroptimist Prize, the Hariclea Darclee International Singing Competition, and the Ionel Perlea National Song Competition.