Ioan Ardelean

Trained in Cluj-Napoca in the class of Alexandru Fărcaș at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music, Ioan Ardelean continued at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and completed a doctorate at the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași in 2011. Competitions came early: first prize at the Nicolae Bretan, a special prize at the Hariclea Darclée in 1999, the grand prize of the Sabin Drăgoi in 2000. He has worked with Corneliu Murgu, Mariana Nicolesco, Giorgio Zancanaro and George Crăsnaru, and his stage repertoire takes in La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Pagliacci, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, L'elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Die Fledermaus; he sang in La bohème at the Constanța State Opera in 2003. He teaches in the faculty of arts at Ovidius University in Constanța, where the baritone Marius Eftimie studied in his class. He had joined the opera company in Constanta in 2000.