Eleonora Enăchescu Is a Complex Musician Who, After Having Graduated from the Violin Department

ELEONORA ENĂCHESCU

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Eleonora Enăchescu is a complex musician who, after having graduated from the violin department of the MusicHigh School in Cluj-Napoca in 1971, embraced the new area of vocal studies, perfecting her art and technique under the guidance of such famous Romanian singers as Magda Ianculescu and Eugenia Moldoveanu.

She made her absolute debut with Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Hungarian Opera House in Cluj, and between 1978 and 2000 she featured among the leading singers of the Romanian Opera House in Bucharest. Permanently eager to widen her repertoire, Eleonora Enăchescu tackled ever more challenging opera parts (among the over 30 titles she has covered we shall only mention Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale and Lucia di Lammermoor, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as Lakmé by Delibes, Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, L’Italiana in Algeri and Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Il Matrimonio segreto by Cimarosa and Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss). Determined to master all musical genres, she approached over 15 important vocal-symphony scores and a great number of art songs.

The thoroughness of her studies, as well as the great musical intelligence and sensitivity which she evinced, quickly won her many appreciative reviews that commented upon the beauty of her tone and phrasing, her refinement and her remarkable sense of style. Her over 400 performances, concerts and recitals took her across Romania and abroad, on tours in England, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, the ex-Soviet Union and the Philippines. Some of her pièces de résistance have been preserved due to Radio recordings, available in the archives of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation.

Always eager to extend her musical activities, Eleonora Enăchescu has embarked upon a didactic career, being an Associate Professor at the National Music University of Bucharest, where she became Head of the Singing Department in 2006. From the same institution she has recently (2004) got her PhD Magna cum Laude. This laborious endeavour has resulted in the publication of a book on The Duality between Text and Music in the Opera Genre at the Publishing House of the National Music University of Bucharest in the same year, while the publication of her second book, From Word to Music, is pending.

Eleonora Enachescu has been invited to deliver masterclasses at theSanta IsabelCollege in Manila, the Philippines, in 1988, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, in 2005 and 2006. Likewise, she has often been invited on the juries of the singing competitions in Romania. She is also a founding member of the A.N.C.R (National Choral Association in Romania) and a member of honour of the “Marţian Negrea” Cultural Foundation.

If Eleonora Enachescu’s art has been acknowledged through the award by presidential decree of the “Meritul Cultural” order (Officer rank) for special merits in Performing Arts (2004) and of the Diploma for Excellency throughout the Entire Career (85th Anniversary of the National Opera House in Bucharest, 2006), her pedagogical skills are daily rewarded by her students’ great success on stage and at national and international competitions.