SUMMER OPERA ACADEMY
August 2021, Belgrade
Rossi Fest Summer Program focuses on the development of necessary professional skills for voice students and emerging opera artists, giving personalized attention to each participant, according to her/his specific strengths and needs.
The Summer Program offers two packages:
1) Carmen production two-week program of intensive voice lessons, coachings, musical and stage rehearsals, and a performance with an orchestra of Bizet’s Carmen on a theatre stage.
2) Voice Masterclass & Mozart Competition program consisting a voice masterclass, a performance at Mozart competition with an orchestra, and a possibility of winning several prizes.
Opera "Carmen"
Rossi Fest production
August 18, National Theatre Belgrade
Ana Grigorović's Carmen focuses on the social question of Roma people and migrants' life in the systems of European countries - groups that were faced with different ways of discrimination throughout the migrant crisis from 2015-2019. The production is set in the present, placing the action in a guarded refugee house, where the characters` urge for freedom becomes apparent. The freedom that Carmen as the first operatic Roma heroine sings about is the same freedom that vulnerable social groups are looking for - the right to move, to work, and lastly, to love freely.
This adaptation of the opera had its Serbian premiere with this Rossi Fest production with great success. This performance is the result of the Carmen production Academy program, in which vocal soloists had the opportunity to work on their vocal, artistic, and stage skills with Rossi Summer Academy lecturers throughout the period of two weeks.
Conductor: Srboljub Dinić
Director: Ana Grigorović
Voice professor: Olga Makarina
Second conductor: Stefan Zekić
Répétiteur: Srđan Jaraković
Stage design: Dunja Kostić
Costume: Ivana Ivić
Choreography: Tamara Pjević
Video art: Matija Novaković
Light design: Vlado Marinkovski
Carmen – Shai Terry (IL)
Don José – Marko Živković (RS)
Escamillo – Vuk Zekić (RS)
Micaëla – Elena Kozina-Claps (RU)
Zuniga – Milan Tošić
Lillas Pastia – Nemanja Stamatović
Garcia – Đorđe Živadinović Grgur
Orchestra ensemble:
Concertmaster: Vesna Jansens
Violin: Aleksandra Dimitrijević
Viola: Mirko Crnojević
Cello: Jasmina Vrbanić
Double bass: Svetozar Vujić
Flute: Jelena Španović
Oboe: Marija Lazić
Clarinet: Mihailo Samoran
Bassoon: Ana Đorđević
Horn: Igor Lazić
Trumpet: Nenad Ninković
Trombone: Ivan Jovanović
Percussions: Aleksandar Radulović
Light operator: Igor Vukojević
Video operator: Dejan Ostojić
Subtitles operator: Ana Bunjak
Stage master: Zoran Mirić
MOZART COMPETITION
August 12, National Theatre Belgrade
Rossi Fest dedicates its very first opera competition to W. A. Mozart, as 2021 marks 230 years from the death of this musical genius. After the online elimination process, seven participants will have the opportunity to work on their repertoire with Rossi Fest Summer Academy lecturers and present it with the orchestra on the main stage of the National Theatre Belgrade, in front of a renowned international jury and audience.
Competition Final:
Tamara Mitrović
Ach, ich fühl’s / Die Zauberflöte
In uomini, in soldati / Così fan tutte
Milica Damnjanac
Der Hölle Rache / Die Zauberflöte
Batti, batti, o bel Masetto / Don Giovanni
Milutin Jocić
Hai già vinta la causa
Non più andrai / Le Nozze di Figaro
Shai Terry
Non so più / Le nozze di Figaro
Smanie implacabili / Così fan tutte
Helena Anat Susha
Deh vieni, non tardar / Le Nozze di Figaro
Padre, germani, addio! / Idomeneo
Milos Milojević
Madamina, il catalogo e’ questo / Don Giovanni
Diggi, daggi, shurry, murry / Bastien und Bastienne
Olivera Krivokuća
Padre, germani, addio! / Idomeneo
Strider sento la procella / Lucio Silla
Conductors: Stefan Zekić and Adi Bar
Director: Ana Grigorović
Orchestra ensemble:
Flute: Jelena Spanović
Oboe: Marija Lazić
Clarinet: Nikola Đurica
Basson: Ana Djordjević
Chorn: Igor Lazić
First violin: Vesna Jansens
Second violin: Aleksandra Jovanović
Viola: Mirko Crnojević
Double bass: Boban Stosić
Orchestration: Srđan Jaraković
Jury members:
Olga Makarina
soprano
founder of Grand Stage International Arts Foundation
Aneta Ilić
soprano
Voice professor and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of
Music, Belgrade
Katarina Jovanovič
soprano
Voice professor at the Faculty of
Music, Belgrade
Srboljub Dinić
conductor
General Music Director at the State Theatre
Braunschweig
Adi Bar
conductor
Prizes & Awards
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Certificates for all participants
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I, II, and III prize
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Potential engagement for Serbian-speaking singers in one of the upcoming productions
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Scholarship for Setúbal CantoFest 2022 (Portugal)
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Scholarship for Neustadter Meistersingerkurs mit Wettbewerbskonzert 2022 (Germany)
