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BIO
Irina Marinaş travelled around the world for her musical education. Born in Romania, the soprano started her studies in her hometown Râmnicu Vâlcea by taking piano lessons at the age of five. A decade later she started studying classical singing in Montreal, Canada.
She graduated from the McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where she was a pupil of Stefano Algieri. Ms. Marinaş completed her studies in Salzburg, Austria at the Mozarteum University, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Opera And Music Theater in the class of Horiana Brãnişteanu and Josef Wallnig.
The soprano's debut was in 2009 at the Operafestival di Roma as Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, role which she interpreted again in 2011 at the Sommer Oper Bamberg Festival.
From 2012 to 2017 Ms. Marinas was a fest member of the Opera Ensemble in Koblenz, Germany, where she interpreted title roles such as Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress), Konstanze (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Stella (A Streetcar Named Desire) Marzelline (Fidelio), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L'Elisir d'Amore) and Tatiana (Eugene Onegin). The soprano also performed as a guest artist at the Hagen Theatre, the Nordhausen Theatre and at the State Theatre Oldenburg in Germany. In 2019 she was invited to perform at the Viennese Ball of The State Opera Timisoara, Romania.
Ms. Marinas currently lives in Austria where she works as a freelancer.