Valentina Farcas's Salzburg Festival debut as Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail was met with wide critical acclaim – “The petite soprano with the pliant voice threatened at times to physically and vocally upstage the real heroine” – and was released on DVD on the Decca label.
Upcoming engagements bring her first Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with the ABAO Bilbao, Adina in L'elisir d'Amore (with Maestro Riccardo Frizza) and Adele in Die Fledermaus at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Musetta in La bohème at Dallas Opera, Haydn's Il Ritorno di Tobia with Maestro Fabio Biondi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in a new production by Christoph Loy and conducted by Ivor Bolton at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, and Jenny in Der Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in a new production by Laurent Pelly at the Theâtre Capitole du Toulouse, France. While in the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin she sang numerous leading roles including Gilda in Rigoletto with Maestro Kiril Petrenko, Queen Schemaha in Rimsky-Kosakov's Le Coq d'Or, Hermione in Handel's Oreste with Maestro Thomas Hengelbrock (voted 2006 Production of the Year in Germany by Opernwelt and broadcast internationally on ARTE) as well as performances of Pamina, Blonde, and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier among others.
Recent engagements include a radiant success as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Savonlinna Festival in Finland, her American debut as Adina in L'elisir d'amore at Palm Beach Opera, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Mozart Festival in La Coruna, Spain, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice, Adele in Die Fledermaus and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Teatro Municipal de Santiago Chile, Liu in Turandot at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Gilda in Rigoletto at the Macau International Music Festival, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the opera companies of Ravenna (released on DVD), Cremona, and Brescia, Donna Farinella in Mozart's pasticcio L'Ape Musicale at the Theater an der Wien with Maestro Bertrand de Billy, Solveig in a world premiere staging of Grieg's Peer Gynt at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste with Maestro Gerd Albrecht, Schubert's Gli Amici del Salamanca at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and a return to Teatro Regio di Parma as Musetta in La bohème with Maestro Bruno Bartoletti.
A frequent concert soloist, Ms. Farcas has sung Mozart's Solemn Vespers at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti. Her other recent performances of oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. Her CD recording of Mozart's Mass in C minor has been released on Brilliant Classics. Other concert repertoire includes Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Bach's Weinachts-Oratorium, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Magnificat, Haydn's Die Schöpfung and Mozart's Requiem and Exsultate jubilate. A prizewinner in several international vocal competitions, she graduated with honors from the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, and also studied for a degree in piano performance from the Academy of Music in Bukarest.
