Ștefan Pop

Pop made his international operatic debut in Teatro dell'opera di Roma in December 2009 as Alfredo in La traviata,[4] under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti, in a production of Franco Zeffirelli.

Later that year he also made his debut at Zurich Opera as Cassio in Verdi's Otello under Daniele Gatti's baton and in Seoul as Il Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto.

In June 2014 he made his debut as Rodolfo in the concert version of La bohème at Salle Pleyel in Paris, alongside Patrizia Ciofi.

[17] In February 2015, Pop made the debut in Don Giovanni at Opéra Bastille, Paris, alongside a great cast under Alain Altinoglu's baton.

[24] In February 2017 he made his debut at Teatro Regio (Parma) in La bohème, where he returned in January 2018 for Rigoletto with Leo Nucci and in March 2018 in Roberto Devereux with Mariella Devia.

The role of Pollione brought him alongside Mariella Devia in Japan to Biwako Hall Center for Performing Arts, Shiga, for Norma.

[32] For the first time at Teatro Regio di Torino, Pop did a new production of Rigoletto by director John Turturro under the baton of Renato Palumbo, alongside Carlos Alvarez.

[40] In September 2019 he received Special prize Oscar della Lirica: Golden Opera for Young Generation at Teatro La Fenice.

[43] Pop sing alongside Angela Gheorghiu at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in last production of La bohème directed by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera a coproduction made by Mezzo TV.

In 2021 he made his first opera-movie La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi for Classica HD at Teatro Massimo Bellini conducted by Maria Fabrizio Carminati and directed by Paolo Gavazzeni and Piero Maranghi.

[48] At Teatro Comunale di Bologna he sings Lucrezia Borgia by G. Donizetti alongside Olga Peretyatko directed by Silvia Paoli and conducted by Yves Abel.

Last production of 2022 was La Boheme at Staatsoper Unten den Linden conducted by Massimo Zanetti and directed by Lindy Hume alongside Ailyn Perez.

[53] In 2023 Pop sang four time Berlin State Opera, in January-February Madama Butterfly,[54] in June-July Don Carlo alongside Aleksandra Kurzak, Rene Pape and George Petean, conducted by Daniele Rustioni, one of the performances was streamed: Staatoper fur alle.

[61] In November he returned to the Royal Opera House for Rigoletto alongside Pretty Yende and Amartuvshin Enkhbat conducted by Julia Jones and directed by Danielle Urbas in regia Oliver Mears.

[62] Stefan made his debut in Macbeth at Bayerische Staatoper alongside Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Saioa Hernandez and conducted by Andrea Battistoni.

Production of La Traviata at Hamburgische Staatsoper 2013, stage photo: Ailyn Pérez as Violetta Valéry, Stefan Pop as Alfredo Germont, extra.