"Mihai’s Countess achieved real pathos but without any false sense of serenity. Raw suffering drove her laments, and “Dove sono” became no wistful elegy but a frenzy of regret." - The Arts Desk
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Corrado Rovaris, Conductor
Emilio Sagi, Stage Director
Corrado Rovaris, Conductor
Emilio Sagi, Stage Director
Corrado Rovaris, Conductor
Emilio Sagi, Stage Director
Return to Royal Opera House Covent Garden in La bohème, Opera Australia as Micaela Carmen, Mimi La bohème in Oviedo Opera.
Mimi La bohème at the Royal Opera House, Gulietta Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Nedda I Pagliacci at La Monnaie in Brussels, Musetta La bohème at the Royal Opera House, Mimi La bohème at the Oper Frankfurt, Agnes Sorel The Maid of Orleans at the Theater an der Wien, Suzel L’Amico Fritz at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl*. [*cancelled]
Samling Institute
Simona in an interview
Samling Institute
Simona in an interview
Pagliacci
Nedda
Pagliacci
Nedda
Simona Mihai with tumbling dark hair and childlike face, would be a plausible young maid, though she grew into a Countess and by the last act had found the dignity and composure to forgive her errant husband.
Simona Mihai, qui fait ici ses débuts à la Monnaie, campe avec beaucoup de facilité une Nedda légère, enjouée, séductrice et peu inconsciente du drame qui se noue autour d’elle.
Mihai successfully combined a sense of fragility with an underlying strength of character, and a powerful ability to project musically
[Mihai] gives a confident, sympathetic characterization of the wan tubercular seamstress doomed from her first entrance. The best of her singing came in the third act: ‘Donde lieta usci’ was gently phrased and touchingly felt.
Simona Mihai sings Mimi expertly and brings emotional depth and subtlety to her characterisation.
Looking suitably brassy, the Venetian courtesan Giulietta played by Simona Mihai was robed in a dark red dress an ideal match for her long, flaming red hair. Singing with vitality and feistiness the Romanian-born British Mihai demonstrated her admirable high register.
