“Exceptional”; “outstanding singer and born actress”; “extraordinary presence”; “an acute sense of drama”; “magnificently timbred voice”; “perfect technique”; “a purity of voice”; “beautiful vocal line, power and emotion”. These are just some of the words used by critics who were unanimously won over by Cristina Pasaroiu on her debut in the title role of Dvorak’s Rusalka at the Opéra de Marseille in February 2025.
This enthusiasm echoes that of Financial Time (among many others), which proclaimed in 2018 that the young Romanian soprano was “undoubtedly the star of the evening, embodying all of Hoffmann’s love” (Stella, Olympia, Giulietta, Antonia) in the Laurent Pelly’s staging of Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Acclaimed on stage since the age of 20, Violetta (La Traviata) and Mimì (La Boheme) are two of the roles Cristina Pasaroiu has embodied most often. Further roles of her extensive and versatile repertoire include Alcina (title role), Elettra (Idomeneo), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Amina (La Sonnambula), Norma (title role), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Leonora (Il trovatore), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Desdemona (Otello), Alice (Falstaff), Rachel (La Juive), Valentine (Les Huguenots), Marguerite (Faust), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Leïla (Les pêcheurs de perles), Micaëla (Carmen), Manon (title role in Massenet's Manon), Manon Lescaut (title role), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Magda (La Rondine), Suor Angelica (title role), Liù (Turandot), Salome (title role), Adriana Lecouvreur (title role), Marietta (Die tote Stadt).
She has been a guest at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Theater an der Wien, the Bregenzer Festspiele, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Oper Frankfurt, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Aalto Theater Essen, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the National Opera Bucharest, the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Budapest Summer Festival, the Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, the Savonlinna Festival, the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, the Theater Basel, the Theater St Gallen, the Teatro Comunale Bologna, the Caracalla Festival in Rome, the Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur, the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, the Theatro Municipal of São Paulo, the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, the Tokyo Spring Festival, the Daegu International Music Festival.
A much sought-after concert singer, she has been touring alongside Andrea Bocelli all over the world from Scotland to Abu Dhabi through Norway, Lettonia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Israel and al-Ula. She has also performed at the Vienna Musikverein, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, at the Berlin Konzerthaus, at Klangvokal Dortmund, at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, at the Teatro Regio Parma, at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Peking and at the Tokyo Spring Festival, to name but a few venues.
Born in Bucharest, Cristina Pasaroiu began her singing studies when she was 12 at the Music School “Dinu Lipatti” of her hometown, winning more than 18 national and international competitions. She continued her studies at the Haute Ecole de musique in Geneva, at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan (with Maestro Vittorio Terranova and Dolora Zajick) as well as at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Vienna, making her international debut in 2009 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Magda in La Rondine).
In 2020, Cristina Pasaroiu started composing and became interested in a blend of operatic singing and electronic pop rhythms under the name AntoNetta. She combines these two passions in a groundbreaking project for which she is the author, composer, and main performer. This project won her the “Trophée des Célébrités 2024” in Romania and made her the first soprano ever to perform at some of the world’s largest Electronic danse music (EDM) festivals such as Tomorrowland, Untold, and Parookaville. Her song “Now we are free” stayed in the Beatport Top 10 for a long time, and the live performances with Blasterjaxx went viral on social media platforms, reaching over 20 million people.
April 2025
