Кълин Братеску

Călin Brătescu's roles include Rodolfo, Cavaradossi and Don José. The Romanian tenor has sung in theatres and festivals at home, elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, has appeared beside Angela Gheorghiu, and took part in the concert that opened the Ohrid Summer Festival. He graduated from the George Enescu academy in Iași in 1996, studying with Corneliu Fânățeanu and afterwards with Ion Buzea and Viorica Cortez, and after five seasons as a soloist in Brașov he joined the Bucharest National Opera in 2003. Competition success brought him the Ludovic Spiess Prize, the grand prize at Città di Alcamo in 2004 and first prize at the Traian Grozăvescu tenor competition two years later.