George Zaharescu, portrait of a master of the Romanian school lyrical theater directing

Abstract

George Zaharescu (1928-2007), stage director, opera and operetta director, and lyrical theatre creator, co-founded the Iaşi Opera House in 1956, along with Dimitrie Tăbăcaru. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Arts in Iași, teaching „Opera”. In 1975 he took over the Bucharest Operetta management for more than 15 years and managed to highlight the most productive theatrical team of the Operetta genre in Romania at that time, through 50 titles presented and over 8000 representations. After retiring from Operetta’s leadership in 1990, he was dedicated to creating new lyrical artists’ classes at the National Music University in Bucharest until 2004 when he yielded the opera class to his disciple, director Daniel Prallea - Blaga.