Gloria Tronel grew up in a musical family and began her musical studies at the Jacques Thibaud Conservatory in Bordeaux, France. From an early age, she studied piano, classical dance and sang in the children's choir of the National Opera of Bordeaux. These experiences naturally led her towards lyrical art. Along with her singing studies at the National University of Music in Bucharest, she has been collaborating since 2015 with the Comic Opera of Bucharest, where she performs roles such as The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), and Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor).
Gloria also participated in the new production of the children's opera Puss in Boots (title role) by Romanian composer Cornel Trailescu at the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca. Among her other projects, she had numerous concerts in Romania, but also in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Rotterdam. She performed the solo soprano part in Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Mass in B minor and a Recital of French repertoire arias with the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2017, she received her Master of Arts in Music with highest distinctions from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium. In September 2018, she made her debut as Jemmy in G. Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell in Switzerland and continued the year by joining the European Opera Academy in Florence, Italy, where, to conclude her studies, she performed The Queen of the Night for a children's performance of Die Zauberflöte at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Gloria was invited by Holland Opera to sing for the Koningsdag celebration in front of the Dutch Royal Family in April 2019. After this performance, she joined the Opera2Day/The National Theater production of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, directed by Theu Boermans on tour in the Netherlands, where she played the role of Katherina Cavalieri.
In 2019, Gloria won Second Prize in the International Singing Competition Triomphe de l'Art in Brussels and was invited to be one of the first three young singers in the Royal Danish Opera's new Young Artists Program for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons where, among other projects, she was scheduled to perform in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Barrie Kosky's production as the Queen of the Night.
In the summer of 2023, Gloria won the First Great Award at the Manhattan International Music
Competition in New York, where she performed at Carnegie Hall for the competition's Gala, she
also won the First Prize at the Mimas Festival Singing Competition on the island of Procida, and
most recently she won the Jessica Pratt Prize personally donated by Jessica Pratt as President of the
Jury at the Ottavio Ziino International Singing Competition in Rome in September. In October,
Gloria won 3 awards at the International Georges Enesco Paris Competition, the Grand Prix
Georges Enesco, the Colonne Orchestra Prize and the Brasov Opera Prize that will both include a
concert and a production in their following season.
Gloria has recently made her debut at the Opéra de Paris and won international critical acclaim for her interpretation of the demanding role of Leticia Meynar in the French premiere of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by the composer himself.
REVIEWS
The Exterminating Angel, Opéra de Paris
There are too many soloists to name, though particularly memorable were...Gloria Tronel effortless in some of the highest notes ever written for a soprano… - The New York Times
Marvellous Leticia of Gloria Tronel. - Le Monde
Her voice climbs and climbs, it seems without limit. In one those dramatic abysses so favoured in opera, Gloria Tronel plays the singer Leticia Maynar, one of the characters in The Exterminating Angel, currently playing at the Opera Bastille under the baton of its composer, Thomas Ades. The tessitura of her coloratura mounts towards stratospheric high notes, like a rocket through the layers that separate her from terra firma. - La Croix
Gloria Tronel (Leticia Meynar) launches herself with panache into a lethal tessitura that is composed for the most part of very high notes (in the story, she is a singer leaving a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor), bringing a real poetry to her last act aria. - Olyrix
Special mention for the soprano's high notes, which soar effortlessly an A6 above the tangled maelstrom of the other solo voices. On the feminine side, we note the wonderful energy of Jacquelyn Stucker (Lucia), and especially Gloria Tronel's portrayal of Leticia, seamlessly embodying the character as both a desired object and a bird torn by high notes in an invisible cage crafted by the director. - Wanderer
And the most notorious part of all, Leticia, sung by the coloratura Gloria Tronel, who dispatches the opening high A and hovers within the role's stratospheric tessitura with grace. - The New Criterion
The Franco-Romanian soprano Gloria Tronel fascinates with her brilliance and bold way of interpreting the terrifying tessitura that the composer has reserved for the character of Leticia Maynar, a singer reminiscent of a portrayal in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. - Scherzo.es
Transported like an idolised icon, Gloria Tronel triumphs as a coloratura with surreal high notes. - SceneWeb
Gala Concert with Aalborg Orchestra and Giordano Bellincampi
Soprano Gina Gloria Tronel burned through with her expressive colatura soprano, which as a sharp instrument managed Meyerbeer's light lark trills and the more dramatic tones in Delibes* "Air des clochettes" from the opera
"Lakmé". She was at her best in the aria "Glitter and be Gay" from Bernstein's "Candide", which was a pure tour de force in technique and musicality, covering the entire range of expression. - Nordjyske
Amadeus, Royal Opera Copenhagen
The Magic Flute aria of the Queen of the Night, sung by Gina Gloria Tronel hanging high from the ceiling, is also one of the highlights of the evening and is rewarded by loud applause. - Den 4. Væg
The Nose, Royal Opera Copenhagen
Gina Gloria Tronel from the Young Artists Program shows great talent, first as the barber's nymphomaniac wife and then as a blasé angel, bored on a trapeze under the cathedral's vaults. - Operaensvenner
There are many talented soloists. In particular, I want to highlight Gina Gloria Tronel, who both looks and sings like an angel in the show's second act. - Den4. Væg
The part as the barber's wife, Praskovja Osipovna was well occupied by Gina Gloria Tronel, who also sang the female voice beautifully, throwing an almost magical light into the evocative scene of the Kazan Cathedral. - Aarskriftet-critique
Gina Gloria Tronel is wonderfully matronly as Osipovna. - Weekendavisen
Guillaume Tell, Tell Festspiele
Tell's son Jemmy, however, becomes the secret star of the evening, who literally has to stick his neck out for his father's stubbornness - after all, that's where the apple to be hit by Tell with the crossbow comes from. Gina Gloria Tronel succeeds in turning the arena into an opera with dramatic expression, a crystal-clear soprano and an unstrained generosity of voice. - Tagblatt
The French soprano, Gina Gloria Tronel, sang Tell's son Jemmy - a cheeky, self confident boy - as clear as a bell. - Berner Oberländer
Tronel plays Tell's son, Jemmy, with a lot of feeling. - Jungfrau Zeitung
Voix Nouvelles Competition, Bordeaux
Just looking at her, you know instantly: we are dealing with a soprano, and a soprano who loves the stage. Vocally, on the other hand, she is a splendid performer: very focused and brilliant, the timbre both ethereal and completely in the face (you'd think you were listening to Güden at times!), and as far as one can tell, the impact seems rather glorious in the hall. In French, the diction is surrounded by a superb velvet, something that would be Mesplé's articulation on Gheorghiu's tone. The taste remains to be watched (but nice trill). - Opera Critiques
GLORIA TRONEL, SOPRANO / ALEXANDER MAYER, CONDUCTOR / HAYDN FOUNDATION OF BOLZANO AND TRENTO ORCHESTRA
GLORIA TRONEL, SOPRANO / SOFIA WILKMAN, PIANO
SOPRANO, GLORIA TRONEL / HOSSEIN PISHKAR, CONDUCTOR / ROYAL DANISH OPERA 
GLORIA TRONEL, SOPRANO / ULRICH STÆRK, PIANO
SOPRANO, GLORIA TRONEL / AUDREY SAINT-GIL, CONDUCTOR / ROYAL DANISH OPERA
