# Aura Twarowska

Aura Twarowska (born 21 November 1967 as Aurora Eleonora Avram in Lugoj, Romania) is a Romanian mezzo-soprano. She was soloist of the Romanian Opera in Timișoara (1997–2010) and at the Vienna State Opera (2007–2016).

## Biography

Twarowska dedicated herself to music when she was 6 by studying piano, mandolin and singing. After graduating from the Coriolan Brediceanu High School in Lugoj she was admitted to the Faculty of Economics of the West University in Timișoara. She kept in touch with music as a member of the Academic Choir of the Banatul Philharmonic of Timișoara, conducted by Diodor Nicoară. Once the Faculty of Music was founded in Timișoara, Twarowska resumed her studying of singing. Following postgraduate opera classes with Georgeta Stoleriu. She obtained her Master of Arts degree at the National University of Music Bucharest.
After a break that lasted several years, she continued to study economic sciences at the Faculty of Economics within the Ioan Slavici University of Timișoara, specializing in accounting and management information systems. She got her bachelor's degree in Economics with a dissertation entitled An Analysis of Managerial and Cultural Marketing Policies Applied within the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara, thus combining her two specialties – music and economics. By uniting them again in a thesis for Grigore Constantinescu, A Vision over the Structures of the Musical Theatre from a Managerial Perspective, Twarowska earned her PhD and got the maximum of votes at the National University of Music Bucharest on 29 April 2010. Twarowska debuted on the stage of the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara in the title role of Bizet's Carmen in 1998. Her work includes other operas and even more vocal-symphonic pieces.
International collaborations and tours opened her way to other European theatres and subsequently led to her engagement as singer at the Vienna State Opera in 2007. Alongside this team she debuted as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Shanghai, during the Asian tour of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2007, under the baton of conductor Seiji Ozawa. In 2018 Aura Twarowska has been awarded the Title of Corresponding Member of the "American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences". Singing Masterclass, ICon Arts Transilvania Academy, Biertan, July 2021.

## Stage appearances
### Vienna State Opera

* Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly
* Richard Wagner – Die Walküre
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Pique Dame
* Leoš Janáček
- Jenůfa
* Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier
* Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov
* Jacques Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann
* Vincenzo Bellini – La sonnambula
* Gioachino Rossini – Il barbiere di Siviglia
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin
* Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana
* Richard Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer
* Richard Wagner – Götterdämmerung
* Gaetano Donizetti – La fille du régiment

### Vienna Volksoper

* Richard Wagner/Loriot – Wagners Ring an einem Abend

### Vienna Musikverein

* Ludwig van Beethoven – Ninth Symphony

### George Enescu Festival, Bucharest

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Krönungsmesse (2001)
* George Enescu – Œdipe, Jocasta (2003)
* Ludwig van Beethoven – Ninth Symphony (2005),conductor Zubin Mehta

### Carré Theatre, Amsterdam

* Georges Bizet – Carmen, Carmen
* Johann Strauss II – Die Fledermaus, Orlovski

### Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

* George Frideric Handel – Messiah
* Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem

### Esplanade, Singapore

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro, Marcellina

### Graz Opera, Austria

* Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana 2018–2019

### Romanian National Opera, Bucharest

* Georges Bizet – Carmen, Carmen
* Giuseppe Verdi – Aida, Amneris; Requiem
* George Enescu – Œdipe, Jocasta, premiere

### Romanian National Opera, Timișoara

* Giuseppe Verdi – Aida, Amneris; Rigoletto, Maddalena, premiere; Otello, Emilia, premiere
* Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly, Suzuki
* Georges Bizet – Carmen, Carmen

### Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca

* Georges Bizet – Carmen, Carmen

## Discography

* Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Waltraute), Deutsche Grammophon