Romanian tenor Emanuel-Cristian Caraman has firmly established himself as a young professional in the world of opera and classical music.
Throughout the 2010-2011 season he has performed with opera companies, symphony orchestra and on the recital stage in South Bend, Chicago and New York in the US, Baden in Germany, and Vienna in Austria.
In the fall of 2009 he made his George Enescu International Music Festival debut in Bucharest, where he sang Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor under the baton of maestro Louis Langrée and alongside distinguished soprano Natalie Dessay.
In 2008 he performed a highly acclaimed three tenors concert, Tribute to Pavarotti under the baton of maestro Kirk Muspratt. He has also collaborated extensively with pianist and conductor, maestro Wishart Bell, for a series of recitals in the United States and Romania.
Born in Bucharest, Romania into a musical family, he began his studies at the Liceul de Muzica Dinu Lipatti in Bucharest and continued at Bethel College Indiana, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in vocal performance. In 2003 graduated from Indiana University with a Masters of Music in vocal performance and in the fall of 2008 Mr. Caraman was conferred the title of Doctor of Music from the National University of Music in Bucharest, Romania.
Throughout his career Mr. Caraman’s has appeared with (to name a few):
A distinguished concert performer, Emanuel-Cristian Caraman has performed the tenor solos in:
Die Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie
Northwest Symphony Orchestra
New Philharmonic Orchestra in Chicago
Opera in the Heights
American Opera Group
da Corneto Opera
Pine Mountain Music Festival
Indiana Opera North
Vesper Chorale and Orchestra
New England Chamber Orchestra
Operatic highlights include:
Rodolfo in La Boheme
Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Don José in Carmen
Ernesto in Don Pasquale
Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni
Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte
Tamino in Die Zauberflote
Alfred in Die Fledermaus
Ramirez’s Misa Criolla
Mozart’s Requiem
Handel’s Messiah
Haydn’s Creation
Bach’s Magnificat
Vivaldi’s Magnificat
Saint-Saéns Christmas Oratorio
Adolphus Hailstork’s I will lift up mine eyes
Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor
Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confesore
Tribute to Pavarotti
Performing Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor with Soprano Natallie Dessay, conductor Louis Langree and the Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie, Bucharest 2009
Scenes from Bizet's "Carmen", appearing as Don Jose, with Joanna Wernett as Carmen, Chicago 2007
Torna a Suriento by E. de Curtis, New Philharmonic Orchestra Chicago, conductor Kirk Muspratt, 2008
Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart American Opera Chicago, conductor David Stech, 2007
Et misericordia from Magnificat by J.S. Bach
Lisa Bloom- Mezzo-Soprano, Emanuel-Cristian Caraman, Tenor, Vesper Chamber Orchestra, conductor Wishart Bell, 2006
E lucevan le stelle from Tosca by G. Puccini New Philharmonic Orchestra Chicago, conductor Kirk Muspratt, 2008
Quoniam tu solus sanctus from Great Mass in C minor by W.A. Mozart, Soprano Natallie Dessay, Soprano Lisa Larson, conductor Louis Langree and the Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie, Bucharest 2009
Di quella pira from Il Trovatore by G. Verdi, New York 2005
La fleur que tu m'avais jetee from Carmen by Bizet, American Opera, conductor David Stech, Chicago, February 2007
Il Mio Tesoro from Don Giovanni by Mozart, American Opera conductor David Stech, Chicago, May 2007