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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





© 2009 Emanuel-Cristian Caraman