First soloist of the Bucharest National Opera since 1978, currently master of studies and rehearsals, Cristian Crăciun was, between 1983 and 1994, a soloist at the Arena di Verona (Italy). He has danced with Carla Fracci, Rudolf Nureyev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Oriela Dorela and Luciana Savignano and is the winner of numerous awards including the Prize of the Serbian National Theater of Novi Sad, the First Prize at the Yugoslav International Dance Competition, the Excellence Award of the Union of Music Critics. In 2005 he was a fellow of the International Leaders-Visitors Government Program for Artistic Management, USA.
Repertoire (roles and dances):
- Siegfried – Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, directed and choreographed by Oleg Danovski, after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov
- Desirée – The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, directed and choreographed by Vasile Marcu
- The Prince – The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, directed and choreographed by Tilde Urseanu
- Colas – La fille mal gardée (The Badly Guarded Girl) by Ferdinand Herold and John Lanchbery, directed and choreographed by Alexa Mezincescu
- Albert – Giselle by Adolphe Ch. Adam, directed and choreographed: Vasile Marcu, after Marius Petipa
- Romeo – Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, directed and choreographed: Vasile Marcu
- Vronsky – Anna Karenina (music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), directed and choreographed by Ioan Tugearu
- Danillo – The Stone Flower by Sergei Prokofiev, directed and choreographed: Vasile Marcu
- Old Casanova – Casanova (musical collage from the works of W.A. Mozart, J. Massenet, G. Mahler), directed and choreographed by Monica Fotescu Uță
- Frollo – Notre-Dame de Paris (musical collage), directed and choreographed: Ioan Tugearu
- Mercutio – Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, directed and choreographed: Ioan Tugearu
- Peer Gynt – Peer Gynt (musical collage), directed and choreographed: Mihaela Atanasiu
- The Screams of the Deer – Japanese Prints (musical collage), directed and choreographed: Ioan Tugearu
- The Drunk – At the Market by Mihail Jora, directed and choreographed by: Ioan Tugearu
- The Faun – The Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy, directed and choreographed: Alexa Mezincescu
- Tristan – Tristan and Isolde (music: Richard Wagner), directed and choreographed: Alexa Mezincescu
- Daphnis – Daphnis and Chloé by Maurice Ravel, directed and choreographed by Gelu Barbu
- Ivan – The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, directed and choreographed: Alexa Mezincescu
- Laios – The Night of Valpurgia from Faust by Charles Gounod, choreography: Alexa Mezincescu
