Кътълин Цоропок

Țoropoc took degrees in music pedagogy and in classical singing at Ovidius University in Constanța and began his career at the city's Oleg Danovski National Opera and Ballet Theatre, where his first roles were Figaro and the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and Leporello in Don Giovanni. Since 2013 he has been a permanent soloist of the Bucharest National Opera, where his parts have grown to include the title role in Nabucco, Scarpia in Tosca, Marcello in La bohème, Ford in Falstaff, Giorgio Germont in La traviata and Wolfram in Tannhäuser. He has sung the Count at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, and has appeared at Dubai Opera and with Garsington Opera. His teachers were Corneliu Fânățeanu, Maria Slătinaru-Nistor, Bruna Baglioni and George Petean; he has also taken up conducting. Renato in Un ballo in maschera and Telramund in Lohengrin also belong to his repertory.