Lilia Istratii is a Moldovan mezzo-soprano who has appeared on international stages, including the Teatro Regio Torino, Polish National Opera in Warsaw, National Theatre in Prague, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo in Brasil, Romanian National Opera in Bucharest, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She has also performed a concert version of Madama Butterfly with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Verdi’s Requiem at Philharmonie Luxembourg, and recently made her American debut with the New Mexico Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
Her operatic repertoire includes Carmen (Carmen), Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina (The Queen of Spades), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Fenena (Nabucco), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann).
She is also active in the vocal-symphonic repertoire, having performed Rossini's Stabat Mater, Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus (RV 594), Gloria in D Major, Mozart's Requiem in D minor, Missa Solemnis in C minor (K139), Missa Brevis in C Major (KV258), Palmieri's Misa a Buenos Aires, Bach's Magnificat in D Major, Johannes Passion, Saint-Saëns's Oratorio de Noel, Loussier's Messe baroque du 21eme siecle, Haydn's The seven last words of Christ, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Verdi's Messa da Requiem.
She has collaborated with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pidò, Sasha Goetzel, Roberto Minczuk, and David Crescenzi, and with directors including Arnaud Bernard, David Livermore, Grischa Asagaroff, Jorge Takla, and Andrei Șerban.
