Dan Iordachescu

Opera Singer. A baritone, he shall be remembered for his more than half-century career which took him to major venues on both sides of the Atlantic. Raised in the small village of Vanju Mare, he studied theater at Isau, made his 1949 professional bow in Florin Comisel's operetta "Victory Life", and spent four years at the Bucharest Conservatory. Joining the company of Bucharest's Romanian National Opera, he instantly became a star, his roles there and elsewhere over the years including Rodrigo of Verdi's "Don Carlos", Wolfram in Wagner's "Tannhauser", Renato from Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera", the two incarnations of Figaro in Rossini's "The Barber of Saville" and Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", Count Tomsky from Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades", the elder Germont of Verdi's "La Traviata", the bullfighter Escamillo from Bizet's Carmen, and the title leads of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" and Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Though based in Bucharest, he gave acclaimed performances at nume