Daniel Filipescu

Bucharest National Opera's Magic Flute of 17 December 2006, staged by Răzvan Dincă, gave Daniel Filipescu his place in a cast with Simona Neagu, Sidonia Nica, Petar Naydenov and Dorina Chesei. He graduated from the National University of Music in Bucharest in 1998 from Eleonora Enăchescu's class and went on to study with Claudia Eder in Mainz and Luciana Serra at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, joining the Bucharest company as a soloist in 2002. His parts there include Guglielmo, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Belcore and Schaunard, and he has sung in France, Croatia, Italy and Germany as well as working in film and in Romanian dubbing for Disney. In 1999 he completed advanced studies with a dissertation on Mozart roles for baritone, supervised by Grigore Constantinescu.