Roxana Constantinescu had already enjoyed several earlier competition successes in Belgium, Romania, Munich and Cologne, but it was as the winner of the prestigious ARD Music Competition in September 2006 that her international career was launched.  Ms Constantinescu subsequently joined the Ensemble at Vienna’s State Opera in the 2007 in 2008 season making her debut with the company as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

In Vienna, where Roxana remained in the Ensemble through the end of the 2009 in 2010 season, further roles and experience have included Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Siébel in Faust;  Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette; Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana; Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos and Fjodor in Boris Godunov.

After another prize-winning success at Italy’s “Tito Schipa” Singing Competition, Roxana Constantinescu was invited to make her debut as Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Teatro Politeama di Lecce and went on to appear as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Austria’s Tirol Festival.  It was also as Rosina that Roxana enjoyed great acclaim in Cologne when she took over their opening night at short notice in September 2007.

In the current season Constantinescu sings the role of Despina in Cosi fan tutte with the Los Angeles Opera under the baton of James Conlon.  Other American engagements include Charlotte in Werther  at Minnesota Opera.

The 2010 in 2011 season brought a number of important house and role debuts:  La Cenerentola at the Minnesota Opera, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte at the Theatre du Capitole, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette at the Dallas Opera and Donna Elvira in the new production of Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Franz Welser-Moest.

Other operatic appearances to date have included Ramiro in La finta giardiniera and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Munich’s Prinzregententheater; Conception in L’heure espagnole at Italy’s Teatro Diego Fabbri; Holofernes in Juditha Triumphans at Munich’s House of Art and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus  at both Bucharest’s State Opera and Essen’s Philharmonie.

As a concert singer, Roxana Constantinescu is in high demand and has recently debuted at Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s Symphony Hall singing Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez.  Roxana enjoys an ongoing  relationship with Helmuth Rilling and has performed with him around the world in music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn as well as last season singing and recording Sven-David Sandstroem’s Messiah.  Other conductors with whom Roxana Constantinescu has collaborated include Gerd Albrecht, Christoph Poppen, Marco Armiliato, Manfred Honeck, Kirill Petrenko, Yannik Nézet-Séguin, Sebastian Weigle, Sir Neville Marriner and Franz Welser-Möst. 

Also an avid recitalist Roxana Constantinescu has performed in Bucharest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Munich, Wiesbaden and Washington as well as extensively in the Far East.  Last season she was presented in recital at Vienna’s famous Musikverein as well as in Goethe’s House in Weimar, London’s Wigmore Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall.  Even at this early stage in her career, Roxana Constantinescu has already participated in numerous recordings for Haenssler  Classic, OEHMS Classics, SWR, Artmode Records, Weltbild and Carus Verlag.

Born in Bucharest, Roxana Constantinescu firstly studied percussion and piano at the George Enescu Music Academy, continuing with voice studies at the National University of Music.   In 2003 she was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship to attend Vienna’s prestigious University of Music and Fine Arts, and a DAAD scholarship enabled her to attend Postgraduate Studies at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Edith Wiens.