Ruxandra Donose [SEP] voice type
Ruxandra Donose
Ruxandra Donose (born 2 September 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano.
Donose studied singing and piano at the Conservatorul Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest.
In 1990 she was the runner up at the ARD contest in Munich. After this, she had her first engagement abroad, in Basel. In 1992 she became a member of the Vienna State Opera. From there, she developed a fast-paced international career, as an opera singer (Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Metropolitan Opera
only Ruxandra Donose for praise. Hers is a dusky mezzo, even in coloration, volume, and support across the registers. The voice is able to handle exacting coloratura without any aspiration or evidence of strain. Her forthright, focused attack in her final aria (""Non più mesta"") brought memories of Marilyn Horne in the 1970s; and like Horne, Donose builds her part from the text, not by working around it." (from "Fanfare Magazine")
Donose lives with her husband and