"In the gold mine of the chief interpreters, Herlea shimmered with all the 24 carats of his voice"
J.L.Barrault
"Covent Garden has found a new and immensely Figaro in Nicolae Herlea. With a voice so rich and smooth that it made one think of brown velvet, his style... and his inexhaustible gusto...have dominated the performance. Herlea has everything that belongs to Figaro: the nobleness, the verve, the mischievous jollity, the invulnerable self-possession, in brief, the personality of one of nature's masters of resource."
Daily Mail, London
Nicolae Herlea studied at the Conservatoire of Bucharest with Prof. Aurelius Costescu-Duca. Later he participated at specialization courses at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Maestro Giorgio Favaretto. In 1951 he debuted at the National Opera of Bucharest as Silvio in ' I Pagliacci ' and remained engaged since then as the first baritone at this house. In 1951 he won first prices at the international singing contests of Geneva, Prague and Brussels. Big success followed with appearances on leading stages: he sang at the Scala di Milano and at the National Opera of Prague, at the Bolschoj Theatre in Moscow and at the Berlin National Opera. In 1961 he was celebrated at the Covent Garden Opera in London, in the same year with the Bucharest Opera in Brussels. From 1964 to 1967 he was member of the Metropolitan Opera New York. In 1965 he sang at the Salzburger Festivals. Appearances at the operas of Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, at the Teatro Liceo Barcelona and repeatedly at the Wiener Staatsoper. In 1962 he received the People's Artist Title. Not only on stage, also in concert halls successfully and as a music critic actively.
Herlea leads masterclass specialisation courses and is the president of the jury of the Hariclea Darclée - Foundation.
At the moment Nicolae Herlea is collecting material for the upcoming biography.
Nicolae Herlea sang in the company of such great artists as:
Montserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry,
Mario del Mónaco, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Cesare Siepi, Anna Moffo, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giorgio Tozzi, Leonie Rysanek, Carlo Bergonzi, Fernando Corena, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Nicolai Ghiuselev
Giulietta Simionatto, James McCracken, Ivan Petrov, Roberta Peters, Virginia Zeani, Richard Tucker, A.F. Krivschenia, Theo Adam, Antonietta Stella, Dimiter Uzunov, Martti Talvela, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luigi Alva, Ivo Vinco, Sena Jurinac, Flaviano Labo, Joseph Rouleau, Rayna Kabaivanska, Barry Morell, Nicola Lemeni Rossi
- under the direction of famous conductors such as:
Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Adler, Gabriele Santini, George Georgescu
Lorin Maazel, Alberto Erede, Georges Prêtre, Egizio Massini, Nello Santi, Kiril Kondrashin, Horst Stein, Constantin Silvestri, Giuseppe Patané, Jean Bobescu
and with top Symphony Orchestras of:
Austria, England, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Poland, Israel, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Turkey, Romania
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