Elena Mosuc

The Romanian-Swiss soprano Elena Mosuc (born in Iasi, Romania) was educated at the George Enescu Conservatory in Iași and, before completing her studies, won several international competitions, for example the international Music Competition organized by ARD Television in Munich in 1990. She received many prestigious prizes (including the Siola d’Oro and the Premio Zenatello di Verona) and in 2005 the Romanian President bestowed upon her the title Officer of the Arts, one of the highest honours awarded to a musician in Romania. In 2009 she made her doctor’s degree in musicology with The Theme of Madness in the Italian opera of the first half of the 19th century with Summa cum Laude. She was named Woman of the Year in Romania in 2009 and in 2010 she became an honorary citizen of her native