Йонела Дума

Ionela Duma has sung with the Oleg Danovski National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Constanța since 1997, in a repertoire running from Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro to Micaëla in Carmen, Inès in Il trovatore, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Annina in both La traviata and Eine Nacht in Venedig. She graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Academy of Music in Bucharest in the class of Silvia Voinea and took further courses in Romania, Italy and the Netherlands. She tours with the company and teaches singing. Born in Brăila, she came to classical singing after a first training in popular music. Mimì in La bohème and Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow belong to her Constanța repertoire as well.