Scientific conference dedicated to Moldovan soprano takes place at Academy of Sciences

Chisinau, 26 February /MOLDPRES/ – A scientific conference entitled: Anastasia Dicescu – first director of Conservatoire Unirea in Chisinau. One hundred years after institution founding has carried out its work at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM) today.

The event was organised by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (MECC), Cultural Heritage Institute (IPC), Section of Social, Economics and Humanities Sciences (SSSEU) of ASM, Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts (AMTAP) and Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Mihai Eminescu.

At the event beginning, the director of IPC, Victor Ghilas, has mentioned that event aims to bring to present and highlight the outstanding artistic figure of soprano Anastasia Dicescu, which arguably supported the lyrical art throughout life, stimulated the talent of young persons in the class of the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art Unirea, which completes a hundred years since its founding in 2019.

During the event, there made communications: Dinu Postarencu, Victor Melnic, Aurelian Danila, Victor Ghilas, Serghei Pilipetchi, etc. Also here, it was presented book: Artisti notorii ai scenei lirice nationale: soprana Anastasia Dicescu (The famous artists of the national lyrical stage: soprano Anastasia Dicescu by Victor Ghilas and Aurelian Danila.

Anastasia Dicescu was born on 27 February 1887, in Galesti, Orhei county, Straseni district today. She studied music in St. Petersburg, Conservatory of Odessa and Music Academy in Rome (1914 – 1916) with Antonio Cottogni⁠. In her career she worked, including as a teacher, in several art institutions: director of Basarabian Opera (1919 – 1923), director and teacher (opera class) at the Unirea Conservatory in Chisinau (1919 – 1936), teacher of singing at the National Conservatory in Chisinau (1932 – 1934), soloist of the Cluj Opera (1923 – 1925), teacher at the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Bucharest (1936 – 1942). She died in 1945 at Bucerdea Granoasa, Alba county, Romania, infected with tuberculosis.