Liliana Nikiteanu

Born in Bucharest. Vocal studies at Bucharest’s Music Academy. Many awards and prizes (amongst others
Francisco Viñas, Barcelona: "Por la mejor y la mas joven mezzo-soprano finalista"; Jeunesse Musicale,
Belgrad; Belvedere, Wien; CIEM, Genf).
Fist engagement at the opera house in Galati (Romania).
Since 1991 member of Zurich Opera.

Guest performances:
With Claudio Abbado and Valeri Gherghiev at the Salzburg Festival, in Aix-en-Provence with René Jakobs,
at the Vienna Klangbogen, the Bregenz Festival, in Edinburgh, La Coruña and Montpellier. With William
Christie at London‘s Royal Festival Hall. She sang Muse und Nicklausse in Les contes d‘Hoffmann and
Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Opéra Bastille in Paris; Octavian in Hamburg (in the Peter Konwitschny
production), in Frankfurt, at the Vienna State Opera and, under the baton of Adam Fischer, in Mannheim;
Margarethe in La damnation de Faust with Antonio Pappano in Brussels. Guest performances also took her
to Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Teatro de la Zarzuela in
Madrid and the Grand Théâtre in Geneva.
In 2008 role debut as Fricka in Das Rheingold, her first Wagner role, in Zurich under the baton of Philippe
Jordan. Also with Philippe Jordan she sang Second Norn in Götterdämmerung and Rossweisse in Die
Walküre.
In 2009/10 projects included Hexe in Humperdinck‘s Königskinder, Federica in Luisa Miller and, under
the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev, Jezibaba in Rusalka in Zurich, and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro with
Jan Schultsz in St. Moritz; in 2010/11 Eleonora in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Gesualdo,
Ragonde in Le Comte Ory and "Das Lied von der Erde" in Zurich; in 2011/12 Madame Podtochina in The
Nose, Ragonde in Le Comte Ory, Emilia in Rossini‘s Otello and Maddalena in Rigoletto in Zurich; Jezibaba
in Rusalka in Montreal; Ino in Semele concerts in Paris; in the summer of 2012 John Cage’s Europeras 1&2
at the RuhrTriennale.2012/13

Regular concerts:
Bruckner Te Deum with Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv and Salzburg, Beethoven 9 with Zubin Mehta in Zurich,
Berlioz "Les nuits d‘été" with Heinz Holliger at the Citée de la Musique in Paris, Mozart Requiem with
John Neshling in São Paulo, Verdi Requiem with Aldo Ceccato in Copenhagen, Rossini Stabat Mater with
Nelo Santi in Zurich, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Haydn "Berenice,
che fai?" with Adam Fischer and the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, Mahler "Das Lied von der Erde" in
Interlaken, Bruckner Te Deum at the opening of the new Auditorio de Tenerife, Brahms Rhapsodie für Alt
und Männerchor in Galati. In 2005 she had the honour to sing at the 500 Years Swiss Guard celebrations in
St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.
Her wide repertory reaches from J.S. Bach (Mass in b minor, Magnificat, St. John’s Passion, St. Matthew’s
Passion, Christmas Oratorio) to Luciano Berio.
Conductors she has been working with:
Claudio Abbado, Aldo Ceccato, William Christie, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Adam Fischer, John Eliot Gardiner,
Valeri Gherghiev, Heinz Holliger, René Jakobs, Philippe Jordan, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Nelo Santi
amongst others.

Recordings:
DVDs with the ensemble of Zurich Opera, amongst others as Cherubino, Zerlina and Dorabella in the
Da Ponte-Trilogy (director: Jürgen Flimm; conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt) and as Auntie in Peter Grimes,
conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.
Plans in 2012/13 include:
Mary in The Flying Dutchman and Jezibaba in Zurich; Ragonde in Le Comte Ory at the Theater an der Wien;
Schnittke’s Faust Cantata with Vladimir Fedoseyev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in
Paris.