Radu Marian (Soprano)
Radu Marian is a Romanian/Moldovan male soprano or
sopranist.
Marian possesses a pure soprano voice in the range of C4
to C6, and he is considered an important singer in Baroque music. His repertoire
incorporates cantatas written for soprano by composers like Handel, Bononcini,
Carissimi, and Frescobaldi, and the repertoire of the old castrati. Marian has
been called "the Baroque nightingale" by the renowned Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera.
Marian is an "endocrinological castrato" or "natural
castrato". A natural castrato is a singer who never went through puberty and so
kept his "unbroken" voice intact.
Marian was
born in 1977, in what was then the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, to a
family of artists. His talent was first recognized publicly in 1989, at the
International Festival of Creation in Moscow, where he took the Laureate
prize.
In 1990, at the age of 13, Marian was awarded first prize
at the Extraordinary Talents International Festival in Chisinau. Afterwards, his
concert career flourished, and he also continued his singing and piano studies
in Moscow and in Bucharest.
Marian moved to Italy in 1999. In Rome he studied with
conductor and countertenor Flavio Colusso, and with Colusso he performed the
unabridged operas of Giacomo Carissimi throughout Europe. In 2000 Marian
recorded his first album, Alia Vox.
Marian is a regular guest at some of the most prestigious
European music festivals. He has performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in
Spoleto, the Avignon Festival, and the Vilnius Festival. He has also performed
at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
the Maestranz Theatre in Seville, the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome, the
Hermitage Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre in
Moscow.
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