Books.Pub - Maria-Cristina Necula
Maria-Cristina Necula is a Romanian-American writer whose work is shaped by a lifelong engagement with language, music, and storytelling.
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Her memoir, The Voice Beneath the Quince Tree, reflects on her childhood in communist Romania, where her father’s defection reshaped her family’s life and where, alongside her mother, she found both refuge and quiet resistance in the world of opera.
A poet from an early age, Necula studied French at Purchase College and the Sorbonne, and later earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Also a classically trained singer, she has performed in the New York City area at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Florence Gould Hall, and the Westchester Broadway Theatre, and has presented on opera at The Graduate Center, Baruch, The City College of New York, and UCLA Southland.
At the Alumni Showcase, Cristina will share all of her published books.
Maria-Cristina Necula’s published work includes The Voice Beneath the Quince Tree: A Memoir of Growing Up in Communist Romania, her Ph.D. dissertation-based book The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations of Historical Fictions,the anthology Life in Opera: Truth, Tempo and Soul”, two translations: Europe à la carte and Molière’s The School for Wives (her Purchase senior project that traveled to Canterbury, England, to be performed by Christ Church University drama study students) and the collection of poems Evanescent.
Her articles and interviews have been featured in Opera Magazine, Classical Singer, Opera America, Das Opernglas, Studies in European Cinema, and Opera News.
In 2022, Cristina was awarded a New York Press Club Award in the Critical Arts Review category for her review of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice at the Metropolitan Opera, published on Woman Around Town.