Roxana Briban

Roxana Briban (28 October 1971 – 20 November 2010) was a Romanian operatic soprano.

Born in Bucharest, Briban first became interested in music at the age of six, when she began to sing and play the violin, soon becoming a soloist of the Romanian Radio Children's Choir, which supports over 300 concerts in Romania and abroad. She attended the George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest, which she left in 1995. Later graduating from the National University of Music Bucharest, Briban received awards from the Romanian Musical Forum and the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company (SRR).

She debuted as a soloist with the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest in 2000 as the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

She made her international debut as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen

Death She committed suicide on 20 November 2010, aged 39, following a period of depression caused, according to her husband Alexandru Briban, whom she married in 1997, by the termination of her contract with the Bucharest National Opera in June 2009. He stated that she had attempted suicide on other occasions and had been receiving treatment.