Ada Milea (born August 5, 1975) is a

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n singer and actress. Ada has written several film scores. She has supported a community under threat from a mining company by volunteering her talents for a festival.

Life

Milea was born in

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 census. It lies on the Mureș River, th ...

. She attended the University of Arts of Târgu Mureș. She worked at the National Theatre of Targu Mures, in 1997. She left to try her own career in 1999. The album

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was recorded by Milea in 2002. In 2005 she was one of the performers volunteering their time for FanFest which was a concert in support of

Roșia Montană Roșia Montană (, "Roșia of the Mountains"; la, Alburnus Maior; hu, Verespatak, ; german: Goldbach, Rotseifen) is a commune of Alba County in the Apuseni Mountains of western Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the Valea Roșiei, through ...

a community under threat from mining. She wrote the music for the award winning film

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which was released in 2008. It was an

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with two actors which was directed by George Dorobanțu and written by based on his own play. Milea & Alexander Balanescu published the CD ''The Island'' - featuring the

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in 2011. In 2019 Milea headlined at London's 'Europalia Romania' festival. She was joined by the Balanescu Quartet to perform a work by Gellu Naum based on the story of

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which had its 300th birthday. In 2022 she opened the 26th Arad International Classical Theater Festival with comedic puns.

References

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