Răzvan Săraru

Galați-born and Bucharest-trained, Răzvan Săraru studied with Ionel Voineag at the National University of Music and went on to master classes with Virginia Zeani, Grace Bumbry, Raina Kabaivanska, Tom Krause and George Emil Crăsnaru. He reached the semifinals of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and won the grand prizes of the Ionel Perlea and Paul Constantinescu competitions, with a further award for his Alfredo in the Traviata 150 project. A soloist of the Oleg Danovski National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Constanța since 2007, he has sung in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Japan as well as at home, appearing with the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and with orchestras in Munich, Tokyo, Graz, Basel, Bremen, Zurich and Bucharest.