[2] At the end of World War II, she joined the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest[3] and by 1948 was the leading soprano.

[1] Besides Susanna, her personal favorite roles included Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville; Gilda in Rigoletto and Nannetta in Falstaff, both by Verdi.

It took from March to August 1968 to obtain the tourists visas from Romania, but they were unable to secure permission for Mărculescu's mother.

Convicted of treason, they were sentenced to twenty years in prison should they return, forcing friends and relatives to distance themselves or face persecution.

[9] With the assistance of the Viennese branch of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society,[11] and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee[7] they relocated to the United States, in October 1968, first settling in Chicago, where Marculescu taught at Roosevelt University.

[12] The festival was designed to teach art song to students and the public by bringing European artists to perform and conduct master classes.

[2] Posthumously, a scholarship bearing her name was instituted at the National University of Music Bucharest by a former student, Georgeta Stoleriu.