Валентин Раковяну

Since 2006 Valentin Racoveanu has sung in the repertory of the Bucharest National Opera, in casts with Călin Brătescu, Simona Neagu, Sidonia Nica and Petar Naydenov. Racoveanu graduated from the conservatory in Bucharest and went on working with Corneliu Fânățeanu, Vasile Martinoiu, Ionel Voineag and Marius Brenciu. A soloist of the Bucharest National Opera since 2001, the tenor has gathered more than fifty roles, among them Nadir, Almaviva, Don Ramiro, Ferrando, Lindoro, Tamino, Goro, Bardolfo, Ruiz, Pedrillo, Ernesto and the Shepherd in Enescu's Oedipe. He has worked with the George Enescu Philharmonic, the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the National Radio Orchestra and the philharmonics of Ploiești, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Arad, Sibiu and Râmnicu Vâlcea. In October 2002 he sang Carmina Burana with the Moldova Philharmonic of Iași at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and De Doelen in Rotterdam; in July 2003 he was Goro at the Ramatuelle festival, and in 2005 he sang Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto at Bad Lippspringe. He is artistic director of the Opera Comică pentru Copii.