Cristina Pasaroiu

In 2016, she appeared as Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, as Micaëla in her debut at the Vienna State Opera, and as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She appeared there as Manon in 2017, singing and acting although she had broken her foot in a rehearsal and had to wear boots even in bed with her lover. In 2018 she made her role debut as Liù in Turandot at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, returned to the role of Manon at the Korea National Opera in Seoul and to the Bregenz Festival as Micaela in Carmen. In the 2018/2019 season she made her role debut as the four heroines of Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the premiere of a Laurent Pelly staging at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, causing the Financial Times to proclaim her the "star of the evening". Other engagements in 2018/2019 include her role debut as Alcina (George Frideric Handel) and Gilda in a new staging of Rigoletto at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Mimì in La bohème at the Royal Opera House of Copenhagen and Micaela in Carmen at the Bavarian State Opera of Munich.

Păsăroiu is a prize winner of several competitions, including the Jaume Aragall competition in Barcelona and in 2011 fourth prize in the international competition Neue Stimmen.

Cristina Pararoiu (born 17 September 1987) is a Romanian operatic soprano who has performed leading roles at major European opera houses, with a focus on French repertoire such as Bizet's Micaëla, Massenet's Manon and Gounod's Juliette.