A Confluence Between Masterpieces: Operas Inspired by Shakespeares Plays

Alina BOTTEZ has BA and MA degrees from the University of Bucharest, Foreign Languages Department, and the National University of Music in Bucharest, Singing Section. She teaches at both universities – British literature and singing respectively –, has a radio programme on opera from a cultural perspective and is also following a performing career, in Romania and abroad. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary doctorate (in philology and musicology), working on a thesis entitled A Confluence between Musical and Literary Masterpieces: Opera Jewels Inspired from Shakespeare’s Plays. She has taken part in a number of international conferences and published numerous papers in various publications.