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	Angela Gheorghiu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opera singer Angela Gheorghiu (born September 7, 1965) is one of the most famous contemporary sopranos.
		A fiery and intense stage actress, Gheorghiu has a particular affinity for the operas of Verdi and Puccini, as well as the verismo school.
		The daughter of a train driver, Gheorghiu was born as Angela Burlacu in Adjud.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angela_Gheorghiu (556 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| ANGELA GHEORGHIU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Angela Gheorghiu was born in Adjud, Romania, and graduated from the Bucharest Music Academy in 1990.
		In 1996 Angela Gheorghiu made her first EMI Classics recording, an album of Duets and Arias with Roberto Alagna and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
		Angela Gheorghiu recorded Gounod's Roméo et Juliette for EMI Classics (released in April 1998) and a second album of Verdi duets, Verdi per due, with Roberto Alagna, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (released in October 1998).
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/gheor.html (719 words)

	La Scena Musicale - The Lebrecht Weekly
		Angela Gheorghiu sits alone before Christmas on a sofa in Chelsea, Roberto Alagna confronts me in February across a Mayfair coffee table.
		For the record, Angela Gheorghiu, 34, and Roberto Alagna, 37, are as closely entwined as they have been since they fell for each other at Covent Garden while Alagna was singing Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in October 1994.
		Gheorghiu travels with a personal assistant called Alexander; Alagna is looked after by his sister; weeks before a premiere they are joined by a vast extended family, occupying several suites.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/000216-NL-alagna-gheorghiu.htm (1207 words)

	Amazon.com: Angela Gheorghiu - Live from Covent Garden: DVD: Angela Gheorghiu,Ion Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gheorghiu's best-known roles are in the romantic and verismo operas of the 19th and early 20th centuries, sampled here in beautifully interpreted arias of Massenet, Charpentier, Puccini, and Cilea.
		Gheorghiu's 18th-century arias give Handel and Mozart a refreshing energy, and she is captivating in "I could have danced all night." The disc is in widescreen anamorphic format with DTS, Dolby Digital 5.0, and PCM stereo sound, and EMI's booklet is a model of what all DVD releases should offer but seldom do.
		Angela Gheorghiu has obviously received great training in cultivating her natural talent, and the result is phenomenal.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000066C6L?v=glance (1509 words)

	classical music - andante - 'i, too, have tears in my voice' - angela gheorghiu on her affinity with puccini ...
		Gheorghiu and Alagna have lived near Geneva for 10 years, yet she is little known in Switzerland, where artistic restrictions on foreign nationals have limited her appearances.
		Gheorghiu is singing it for the first time in the opera house, but the soundtrack of her film attracted adulatory reviews: "The most sensuous Tosca imaginable...", "ideal passion and beauty..." and "a great performance, as magnetic as Callas's."
		Gheorghiu is giving little away, except that she loves Tosca, once memorably dismissed as "a shabby little shocker".
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25347 (2947 words)

	Roberto Alagna - Interview with Angela Gheorghiu, 3 July 2003
		Gheorghiu is in London to sing her first Nedda in a monumental Pagliacci at the Royal Opera House (she is in four of the production's 10-20 July performances).
		In 1996 her sister and brother-in-law were killed in a car crash, leaving Gheorghiu to bring up their young daughter, now 12 and at boarding school in London.
		Gheorghiu and Alagna work hard to spend time as a family, "but you ask any of my colleagues how they manage with children in this profession, with complex schedules and dates all over the world.
	www.jcarreras.homestead.com /AlagnaArtGheorghiuInterES03.html (1132 words)

	Amazon.com: Angela Gheorghiu - Casta Diva / Pido: Music: Vincenzo Bellini,Gaetano Donizetti,Gioachino Rossini,Evelino ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This recital disc shows soprano Angela Gheorghiu reaching out beyond the lyric Verdi-Gounod-Massenet-Puccini repertory in which she made her name and edging into the gymnastic world of coloratura and bel canto--with some measure of success.
		Angela Gheorghiu has an amazing voice, and there are moments when she sounds amazingly like Callas, especially when she colors phrases in the middle range, and, moreover, she has a dramatic compulsion that completely eluded both Sutherland and Caballe'.
		Angela Gheorghiu is a beautiful woman who happens to have a lovely, dark voice capable of many colors.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005K3PY?v=glance (1899 words)

	The Lady - Interview with Angela Gheorghiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Angela Gheorghiu first met the Sicilian-born tenor Roberto Alagna at Covent Garden in 1992 when they appeared in La bohÃ¨me (his debut with the Royal Opera).
		When Angela's beloved sister Eleni (also a singer) was killed in a car crash, the couple adopted Eleni's orphaned daughter, Ioana, who is brought up along with Roberto's daughter Ornella.
		Angela speaks four languages, Romanian, French, Italian and English, but tends to speak her native tongue with her husband.
	www.lady.co.uk /articles/0130artA.cfm?framed= (1140 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu: The Essential Angela Gheorghiu - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the case of Angela Gheorghiu, both Decca and EMI have plenty of good material -- so much so that both released compilations in 2004, each of which is an excellent capsulation of Gheorghiu's art and career, and neither of which duplicates the other's musical selections.
		Decca was Gheorghiu's label during the first years of her international career, and so "The Essential Angela Gheorghiu" is limited to recordings made before 2000.
		It was the role that launched Gheorghiu into the big time, and having her "Ah, fors' è lui...sempre libera" from that time of her career is a great opportunity to hear the qualities that first made her famous.
	www.yourmusic.com /?tc=00YM51945&success=/browse/album/58342.html (493 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Angela Gheorghiu - Mysterium: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anybody who knows Angela Gheorghiu's work will know that she makes a brilliant heroine, her powerful voice has the ability to transport the listener right into the heart of the piece and the drama conveyed in her voice is incredible.
		Bhrams' "Wiegenlied" shows that there is a marvellously tender side to Gheorghiu and her performance of Schubert's "Mille cherubini in coro" is extraordinarily beautiful as are Mendelssohn's "Auf Fluugeln des Gesanges" and Puccini's "Salve regina".
		Gheorghiu's rendition of the Mascagni "Ave Maria" is simply divine and must be one of the best performances I have ever heard combining Gheorghiu's power and dramaticism with amazingly tender singing in just the right proportions.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OC08 (888 words)

	Roberto Alagna - People Magazine 21 June 1999
		The couple have been called "Bonnie and Clyde" by one exasperated director, and Gheorghiu has even been referred to in opera circles as "La Petite Draculette." In a notorious 1997 incident, she infuriated Met general manager Joseph Volpe by refusing to wear a blonde wig in Carmen.
		Gheorghiu still cannot talk about her own tragedy: Her sister Elena, also a soprano, died of a heart attack at age 30 in 1996.
		Unlike Alagna, Angela and Elena, daughters of a train conductor in Adjud, began training for the opera as children.
	www.jcarreras.homestead.com /AlagnaArtPeople1999.html (663 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu
		Angela Gheorghiu was born in Adjud, Romania, and graduated from the Bucharest Music Academy.
		Gheorghiu interpreted Juliette in the movie Romeo et Juliette for Online Classics (DVD) and sang at the historic performance at the Proms at the Palace on June 1 to mark the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (DVD).
		Gheorghiu was honoured with "La Medaille Vermeille de la Ville de Paris", and last year she was appointed an "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture and by her native country Romania.
	www.arena.it /eng/front/documentiING/bio/gheorghiu.html (498 words)

	Buywell Just Classical - 'Angela Gheorghiu - The Essential Collection' CD Label: Decca, Cat. No. 473 320-2 (or 4733202)
		It was nearly ten years ago (in 1994) that Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu shot to international stardom overnight with her sensational performance in Verdi's La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden under the baton of the great Sir Georg Solti.
		Loved for the dark beauty of her voice, her dramatic commitment and her truly operatic rise to fame, Angela Gheorghiu is now among the most high profile classical musicians in the World.
		This new collection of Angela Gheorghiu's greatest recordings includes all her signature roles - Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore with her husband, tenor Roberto Alagna, Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme, several of her great French roles and, of course, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata.
	www.buywell.com /cgi-bin/buywellic2/02637.html (557 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu sings Puccini Arias @ Royal Festival Hall, London : concert review
		Angela Gheorghiu's concert of Puccini arias at the Royal Festival Hall was one such example, designed to plug her recent Puccini album, which has been generally though not universally well received.
		This was a bit frustrating, as Gheorghiu tended to select numbers which she has been singing for some time rather than the more interesting items.
		Yet it was Gheorghiu's evening, and the well-deserved standing ovation at the end acknowledged her high status as one of the world's leading opera singers.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/gheorghiu.htm (704 words)

	classical music - andante - angela gheorghiu walks out of madrid's new traviata after one rehearsal
		After just one rehearsal, soprano Angela Gheorghiu has pulled out of the Teatro Real Madrid's new production of La Traviata, saying she disapproves of director Pier Luigi Pizzi's "vulgar" interpretation of the opera, Spain's ABC news service reports.
		The famously temperamental Gheorghiu said that Pizzi's staging violates the spirit of both Verdi's opera and the Alexander Dumas play on which it is based.
		Emilio Sagi, the opera company's artistic director, said that Gheorghiu arrived in Madrid 15 days after the rest of the performers and that her early departure is an insult to the cast and to conductor Jesús López-Cobos.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=22205 (511 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release
		Angela Gheorghiu Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano Coro di voci bianche del Teatro alla Scala e del Conservatorio “G. Verdi”; di Milano Orchestra del Teatro all Scala de Milano Robert Gabbiani (Chorus Master) / Riccardo Chailly (Conductor)
		Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano Coro di voci bianche del Teatro alla Scala e del Conservatorio “G. Verdi”; di Milano Orchestra del Teatro all Scala de Milano Robert Gabbiani (Chorus Master) / Riccardo Chailly (Conductor)
		This new collection of Angela Gheorghiu's greatest recordings includes all her signature roles - Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore with her husband - tenor Roberto Alagna, Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème, several of her great French roles and, of course, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata.
	www.deccaclassics.com /newsandnewreleases/january2004/473320.html (535 words)

	Where @ Lebanon.com - Entertainment - Festivals
		Angela Gheorghiu was born in Romania, and graduated from the Bucharest Music Academy in 1990.
		Since her 1992 debut at Covent Garden, Ms Gheorghiu has been in constant demand in opera houses around the world, and is considered by critics to be one of the finest sopranos of her generation.
		Roberto Alagna and his wife Angela Gheorghiu have seperatly interpreted the most important roles of the opera.
	www.lebanon.com /where/entertainment/festivals025.htm (1125 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu - Live From Covent Garden Movie: Angela Gheorghiu - Live From Covent Garden DVD is available from ...
		Angela Gheorghiu - Live From Covent Garden Movie: Angela Gheorghiu - Live From Covent Garden DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The striking Romanian beauty Angela Gheorghiu is one of the most talented opera sopranos in the world.
		With her dramatic presence and breathtaking vocal range and tone, the singer has taken the classical world by storm time and time again.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/724349269699BT (119 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu - Puccini Album: A FanFaire CD Giveaway
		In 2000-01, Ms Gheorghiu filmed Tosca with her husband, star tenor Roberto Alagna and the Royal Opera House Orchestra, the video and soundtrack recording of which have received critical acclaim.
		This CD is worth adding to one's Puccini collection - for the music as well as for the de luxe packaging and documention that includes, in three languages, biographies of the composer and the artist, the text of the arias, and brief synopses of the operas that give context to the aria selections.
		Below, a sampling of Puccini, in the style of Angela Gheorgiu, who can legitimately claim the mantle of the legendary sopranos (e.g., Callas, Tebaldi) of another age, after whose professional styles she has partly fashioned her own (click on your choice of media player):
	www.ffaire.com /gheorghiu-alagna/gheorghiu-pucciniCD.html (332 words)

	Classical Net Review - Angela Gheorghiu - Arias
		Gheorghiu's voice is dark and characterful, rather like Sylvia Sass's, but without the Hungarian soprano's Callas-like mannerisms.
		I didn't feel like I was hearing the real Angela Gheorghiu until the final selection, an ode to music, sung in her native tongue.
		I think that there's a real danger that Gheorghiu will take on roles that are too heavy for her.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/l/lon52417a.html (339 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential Angela Gheorghiu: Music: Alfredo Catalani,Gaetano Donizetti,Charles Gounod,George ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Angela Gheorghiu - Casta Diva / Pido ~ Vincenzo Bellini
		Gheorghiu loves to do (her Sempre Libera and Jewel Song are nothing but that shudder).
		At least Fleming has the intelligence to stay with her lyric roles instead of foolishly trying to sing roles that are completely out of her range.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000V8CJ0?v=glance (1149 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu - Art of Angela Gheorghiu
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Angela Gheorghiu - Art of Angela Gheorghiu to receive a rating.
		Taking to the stage as part of the Royal Opera, Gheorghiu made an auspicious debut in Verdi's LA TRAVIATA by playing the character of Violetta.
		A group of lucky travelers is about to discover one of the unfortunate and frightening consequences of the nuclear program.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/angela_ghoorghiu_art_of_angela_gheorghiu (375 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		News about Angela Gheorghiu continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Belk Theatre, 8:00 pm CD: Verdi Requiem Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, conductor Angela Gheorghiu, Daniela Bercellona, Robert Alagna, Julian Konstantinov with the Swedish Radio Chorus and Eric Ericson...
		Angela Gheorghiu is definitely one of the latter.
	www.topix.net /who/angela-gheorghiu?removemenu=who/angela-gheorghiu (118 words)

	Angela Gheorghiu: Verdi - La Traviata/Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore DVD - MovieWeb
		Angela Gheorghiu: Verdi - La Traviata/Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore
		Two productions starring renowned opera soprano Angela Gheorghiu are brought together in this release from {@Decca Classics.
		Art Of Angela Gheorghiu includes a performance of Verdi's {+La Traviata as well as Donizetti's {+L'Elisir D'Amore (The Elixir of Love).
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/33/51033/features.php (183 words)

	Angel Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Angela Gheorghiu offers the complete package — all the beauty and glamour of the opera diva combined with the most beautiful soprano voice of her generation.
		Ms Gheorghiu sings an exciting program of the most popular arias ever, 'O mio babbino caro', 'Un bel dì' and many more from Madama Butterfly, Turandot and La Bohème. Angela Gheorghiu is without parallel on the world stage in this repertoire.
		A bonus single of Angela's recording of 'Vissi d'arte' is also included.
	www.angelrecords.com /detail.asp?UPCCode=724355787224 (387 words)

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