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Romanian Niculina Mirea sings French fireworks in Ireland

THE SONGBIRD: Romanian soprano Niculina Mirea (1938 - 2024) (also known as Mirea-Curta) graduated from the music conservatory in Cluj in 1957, winning the Enescu singing prize that year. After a year of study in Italy, she returned to Cluj as a leading soprano in standard light lyric-coloratura roles (Olympia, Rosina, Norina, Sophie, Nannetta, Susanna, Lakme, Gilda). She toured Russia and the Baltic countries, and appeared several times in Ireland in the 1960s and 70s (as Nannetta, Philine, Oscar, Violetta, and Bellini's Elvira). She made one solo recital compilation of arias on the Electrecord label -- the vinyl disc is so rare it's been on my want list for 20 years. As a voice teacher, one of her most successful students is coloratura soprano Teodora Gheorghiu. THE MUSIC: Ambroise Thomas composed the opera-comique "Mignon" to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's novel. It was a big success upon its Paris premiere in 1866 and had racked up 1,500 performances at that theater within just over 50 years. The work features one of opera's most flamboyant coloratura arias as the glamorous actress Philine dazzles a crowd of adoring fans after her performance (off stage) as Titania, the queen of the fairies, in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She is Titania, she announces -- "Je suis Titania!" It's a true vocal showpiece, an exuberant polonaise, with extravagant coloratura trickery packed into nearly every measure. The highest note in the score, a single High E-flat, comes in the written final cadenza.