Dorina Chesei

At the Bucharest National Opera on 17 December 2006, Dorina Chesei sang in Mozart's The Magic Flute, in a cast with Simona Neagu, Sidonia Nica, Petar Naydenov and Madalina Militaru; the production was prepared by Răzvan Dincă. Chesei was a soprano who graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Music, where she studied with Ludovic Spiess, Arta Florescu and Corneliu Fanateanu. She joined the Bucharest National Opera as a soloist in 1992 and sang there for more than three decades, also appearing at the opera houses of Cluj, Timisoara, Brasov, Craiova, Galati and Constanta. Her roles included Elisabetta in Don Carlos, Leonora in Il trovatore, Musetta, Donna Elvira, Despina, Micaela and Antigone in Enescu's Oedipe. She died in January 2025.