Jadranka Jovanović
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Jadranka Jovanović is a primadonna of Opera in the National Theatre
in Belgrade
, Serbia
. She was born in Belgrade, and she is one of the most popular artists in the classic music in her country with a respected international career.
She debuted as Rosina
in Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Seviglia" at the National Theater in Belgrade, where she interpreted all main mezzo-soprano roles.
Her international career started at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan
where she appeared in Carmen (Mercedes) and Andrea Chénier
(Bersi), conducted by Claudio Abbado
and Riccardo Chailly
. At Scala she also appeared in the leading role in the world premiere staging of Orfeo
by Luigi Rossi.
She mostly performed in Italian theatres, opera houses and festivals:
Roma (Teatro Argentino) and Milano (Teatro Carcano), she appeared with Jose Carreras
in fantasy based on Carmen;
Firenze (Teatro Comunale) The Gambler (Blanche) by Sergei Prokofiev
, with Daniela Dessi
, Dimiter Petkov and maestro Edoardo Mata.
Parma (Teatro Reggio), Falstaff
(mrs.Slender) by A.Salieri;
The Donizetti Festival in Bergamo
– Il Diluvio Universale
(Ada), and Fausta (Irella);
Palermo (Teatro Massimo
) Rigoletto
(Maddalena);
Cagliari (Teatro Romano) La Forza del Destino
(Preziosilla);
Catania (Teatro Bellini) Il Capello di Paglia Firenza (La baronessa de Champigny) conducted by M.Arena and the Countess of Czardas (Silva);
Pesaro – The Rossini Festival: Mose in Egitto, conducted by D.Renzetti;
Trieste (Teatro Verdi) The Countess Maritza by E.Kalman, The Little White horse by R.Benatchy, Hary Janos by Z.Kodally, Miss Juliette by A.Bibalo with Jose Cura…
She sang in various operas in other countries:
Barcelona (Teatro Liceo) Adriana Lecouvreur
(Principessa de Bouillon) with Mirella Freni
and Plácido Domingo
, and Roberto Devereux
(Sara) conducted by Richard Bonynge
;
Lissabon (Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos) she sang Elena in Mephistopheles
by A.Boito conducted by Daniel Nazareth
, and Mass in c-minor by Mozart
in Gulbenkian Foundation with maestro Claudio Schimone;
Rio de Janeiro (Teatro Municipal):
Carmen (Carmen) with Plácido Domingo
and Justino Dias; Requiem
– G.Verdi, conducted by Anton Guadagno
, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Compositor) conducted by Eugene Kohn.
São Paulo (Teatro Municipal) Carmen (Carmen) conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky,
Tokyo (Bunka Kaikan)- Carmen (Carmen);
Athens Festival (Irodion)- Carmen (Carmen)
In National theatre in Dublin, she sang Eboli in Don Carlo
, and in Mexico City (Teatro de la Ciudad
) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina).
At the Palm Beach Opera
(USA) she interpreted main roles in LA: Cenerentola and L`Italiana in Algeri, also Eboli in Don Carlo with maestro Anton Guadagno
.
Amneris in opera Aida
she sang in Austria in the festival Gars am Kapm, Opera Zagreb, and samer festival `Split-Peristil` in Croatia.
At Georges Enescu Festival in Bucharest (Romania) she was Abigaille (Nabucco
), as well as in Festival in Split, end Festival in Skopje (Macedonia).
In Bulgaria National opera Sofia she sang Adalgisa (Norma
),
and in Toronto – Glenn Gould Hall, Recital.
Jadranka Jovanović sung leading role in the first performance of Carmen in the Middle -East, in Abu Dhabi
.
She also sang at The Royal Opera de Vallonie(Liege), L'Opera de Nice, L`Opera de Toulon, L`Opera de Bordeaux, Teatro Cervantes (Malaga), Teatro della Maestranza (Siviglia), Teatro Victoria Eugenia (San Sebastian), Bedzih Smetana Hall (Prag), Opera Budapest, Opera Odessa (Ukraina), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Dubrovnik Samer Festival, Opera Ljubljana i Opera Maribor (Slovenia), Thesaloniki, Brno, Beijing…
At Figeras (Spain) she participated first world performance fragment of the opera Être Dieu
with libretto of Salvador Dalí
.
National Theatre in Belgrade
The National Theatre was founded in the latter half of the 19th century. It is located on Republic Square, in Belgrade, Serbia.The National Theatre was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1983, and it is protected by the Republic of Serbia....
in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. She was born in Belgrade, and she is one of the most popular artists in the classic music in her country with a respected international career.
Biography
In her native-town she graduated-B.A. in theory of music and solo singing and M.A. in solo singing.She debuted as Rosina
Rosina
Rosina may refer to:*Rosina, Slovakia, a municipality in Slovakia*Rosina, Bulgaria, a village in Targovishte Municipality*Rosina Storchio, Italian soprano*Alessandro Rosina, an Italian footballer*a figure from The Barber of Seville...
in Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Seviglia" at the National Theater in Belgrade, where she interpreted all main mezzo-soprano roles.
Her international career started at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
where she appeared in Carmen (Mercedes) and Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
(Bersi), conducted by Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
and Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...
. At Scala she also appeared in the leading role in the world premiere staging of Orfeo
Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing...
by Luigi Rossi.
She mostly performed in Italian theatres, opera houses and festivals:
Roma (Teatro Argentino) and Milano (Teatro Carcano), she appeared with Jose Carreras
José Carreras
Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini...
in fantasy based on Carmen;
Firenze (Teatro Comunale) The Gambler (Blanche) by Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
, with Daniela Dessi
Daniela Dessì
Daniela Dessì Born May 14, 1957, in Genoa, Italy is an Italian lirico-spinto soprano.Daniela Dessì completed her singing studies at the Conservatory of Parma and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. After having won the first prize at the International Competition organized by RAI TV in 1980, she had...
, Dimiter Petkov and maestro Edoardo Mata.
Parma (Teatro Reggio), Falstaff
Falstaff (opera)
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and only the second of his 26 operas to be a comedy...
(mrs.Slender) by A.Salieri;
The Donizetti Festival in Bergamo
Bergamo
Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
– Il Diluvio Universale
Il diluvio universale
Il diluvio universale is an azione tragico-sacra, or opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni after Lord Byron's Heaven and Earth and Padre Ringhieri's Il diluvio....
(Ada), and Fausta (Irella);
Palermo (Teatro Massimo
Teatro Massimo
The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II....
) Rigoletto
Rigoletto
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
(Maddalena);
Cagliari (Teatro Romano) La Forza del Destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
(Preziosilla);
Catania (Teatro Bellini) Il Capello di Paglia Firenza (La baronessa de Champigny) conducted by M.Arena and the Countess of Czardas (Silva);
Pesaro – The Rossini Festival: Mose in Egitto, conducted by D.Renzetti;
Trieste (Teatro Verdi) The Countess Maritza by E.Kalman, The Little White horse by R.Benatchy, Hary Janos by Z.Kodally, Miss Juliette by A.Bibalo with Jose Cura…
She sang in various operas in other countries:
Barcelona (Teatro Liceo) Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé...
(Principessa de Bouillon) with Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni, birth name Mirella Fregni, is an Italian opera soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky...
and Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...
, and Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux
Roberto Devereux is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti...
(Sara) conducted by Richard Bonynge
Richard Bonynge
Richard Alan Bonynge, AO, CBE is an Australian conductor and pianist.Bonynge was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School before studying piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He gave up his music scholarship, continuing his private piano studies, and became a coach for...
;
Lissabon (Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos) she sang Elena in Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles is a demon featured in German folklore...
by A.Boito conducted by Daniel Nazareth
Daniel Nazareth
-Early life:Daniel Nazarath was born in Bombay, India.His parents ran the well known Nazareth Public Speaking Academy.-Career:Daniel Nazareth began violin lessons at age of 7. He earned degrees in Commerce and Economics from Bombay University in 1968. He earned a degree in piano from the Royal...
, and Mass in c-minor by Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
in Gulbenkian Foundation with maestro Claudio Schimone;
Rio de Janeiro (Teatro Municipal):
Carmen (Carmen) with Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...
and Justino Dias; Requiem
Requiem (Verdi)
The Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi is a musical setting of the Roman Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist much admired by Verdi. The first performance in San Marco in Milan on 22 May...
– G.Verdi, conducted by Anton Guadagno
Anton Guadagno
Anton Guadagno was an Italian operatic conductor.Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Italy, Anton Guadagno studied at the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory in Palermo and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He worked with Herbert von Karajan while studying at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and won first...
, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Compositor) conducted by Eugene Kohn.
São Paulo (Teatro Municipal) Carmen (Carmen) conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky,
Tokyo (Bunka Kaikan)- Carmen (Carmen);
Athens Festival (Irodion)- Carmen (Carmen)
In National theatre in Dublin, she sang Eboli in Don Carlo
Don Carlos (play)
Don Carlos is a historical tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Schiller; it was written between 1783 and 1787 and first produced in Hamburg in 1787...
, and in Mexico City (Teatro de la Ciudad
Teatro de la Ciudad
The Teatro de la Ciudad was built as the "Teatro Esperanza Iris" in 1918 and is now one of Mexico City’s public venues for cultural events...
) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina).
At the Palm Beach Opera
Palm Beach Opera
Palm Beach Opera, a professional opera company in West Palm Beach, Florida resident at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, was founded in 1961 as "Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches." Over its history, the company has presented a season of fully staged operas ranging from a single production...
(USA) she interpreted main roles in LA: Cenerentola and L`Italiana in Algeri, also Eboli in Don Carlo with maestro Anton Guadagno
Anton Guadagno
Anton Guadagno was an Italian operatic conductor.Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Italy, Anton Guadagno studied at the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory in Palermo and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He worked with Herbert von Karajan while studying at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and won first...
.
Amneris in opera Aida
Aida
Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...
she sang in Austria in the festival Gars am Kapm, Opera Zagreb, and samer festival `Split-Peristil` in Croatia.
At Georges Enescu Festival in Bucharest (Romania) she was Abigaille (Nabucco
Nabucco
Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the Biblical story and the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue...
), as well as in Festival in Split, end Festival in Skopje (Macedonia).
In Bulgaria National opera Sofia she sang Adalgisa (Norma
Norma
Norma is a popular girl's name. Norma may also refer to:In science and technology:*Norma , of the southern sky*Cygnus Arm, also known as the Norma Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy*555 Norma, a minor planet...
),
and in Toronto – Glenn Gould Hall, Recital.
Jadranka Jovanović sung leading role in the first performance of Carmen in the Middle -East, in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...
.
She also sang at The Royal Opera de Vallonie(Liege), L'Opera de Nice, L`Opera de Toulon, L`Opera de Bordeaux, Teatro Cervantes (Malaga), Teatro della Maestranza (Siviglia), Teatro Victoria Eugenia (San Sebastian), Bedzih Smetana Hall (Prag), Opera Budapest, Opera Odessa (Ukraina), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Dubrovnik Samer Festival, Opera Ljubljana i Opera Maribor (Slovenia), Thesaloniki, Brno, Beijing…
At Figeras (Spain) she participated first world performance fragment of the opera Être Dieu
Être Dieu
Être Dieu: opéra-poème, audiovisuel et cathare en six parties is a self-proclaimed "opera-poem" written by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, based on a libretto by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán with music by French avant-garde musician Igor Wakhévitch...
with libretto of Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
.
External links
- Jadranka Jovanović at Belgrade National Theater webcite
- Domingo - L'anima ho stanca with Jadranka Jovanović
- Jadranka Jovanovic Teatro alla Scala-Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano performed in Italian La mulatta Bersi
- Jadranka Jovanovic Teatro alla Scala-Carmen by Georges Bizet performed in French Mercédès
- Carmen in Abu Dhabi
- Carmen in Tokyo