Daria Lutu

A Romanian soprano, Daria Lutu — whose name appears in Romanian sources as Daria Lupu — took her bachelor's and master's degrees at the National University of Music Bucharest, completing the second in 2025, and gained her first stage experience in the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio of the National Opera in Bucharest, singing Marguerite in Faust, Mimì in La bohème and La Bergère in L'enfant et les sortilèges between 2024 and 2025. She won first prize at the Belcanto at the Royal Court competition in 2022, reached the Voix Nouvelles semifinals in Paris in 2023, was a finalist of the Sumi Jo International Singing Competition in 2024 and received the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award at the 37th Eleanor McCollum Competition in January 2025. Chosen for the XXV International Masterclass of Raina Kabaivanska, she sang in its gala concert at the Sofia National Opera on 19 September 2025 under Nayden Todorov, and holds a Raina Kabaivanska Fund scholarship to the Vecchi–Tonelli Institute for 2025/26.