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Beograđani su oduvek dobri domaćini koji će za gosta uraditi i više nego što treba Belgraders have always been good hosts who will do more than they need to for their guest
Tamara with certainty.
Success for her is a mere incidental re- ward for dealing with one’s beloved calling, while she says that the essence is strength coupled with thoughts and feelings, a surge of immense emotional energy and the feed- back of the audience. “In order to achieve success in opera houses around the world, it is necessary - apart from a great love for the arts – to have faith in yourself, a vision, a desire to ad- vance, perseverance, discipline, great work and support,”she says, without overlooking the very important factor of luck, which was perhaps also crucial for her, at least when it came to her meeting Montserrat Caballé. “I was accepted into her masterclass as the youngest inclusion, and I vividly re- member the moment she walked into the hall of the Auditorio de Zaragoza, with dark glasses, rues on a closed collar blouse and a distinctive hairstyle.” Tamara got the chance to sing in the concert series “The Most Beautiful Voices of Montserrat Caballé” with only 11 other students of her masterclass. “I think she found me likeable because I was brave, but that she also liked my voice. I performed with them for two consecutive years, and I also socialised with Montserrat privately. She kept a photo of Maria Callas on her piano, despite them being rivals,” says Tamara, adding that many signicant performances still seem unreal to her today. “That’s a special state of mind when you must maintain seriousness and fo- cus on what awaits you on stage, while you are overwhelmed by emotions due to having the chance to convey to your audience something that’s most sincere from your soul.” That which she mentions as most sin- cere is what this trio, who belong to both us and the rest of the world, will convey to the audience of Kolarac Hall through famous arias from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figa- ro, Puccini’s La bohème, Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers and Charles Gounod’s Faust. A special spice will be provided by Spanish and Italian songs, as well as piano works by Debussy and Rachmanino, which is why this 11th April concert at Kolarac is some- thing you mustn’t miss out on.
David Bižić
A ll three are native Belgraders, but they’ve all built brilliant careers abroad. Tamara Rađenović is the only opera artist from the former Yugoslavia to enrol in and graduate from the renowned Royal College of Music in London. Also testifying to the strength of her talent is the fact that at the age of 19 she amazed opera legend Montserrat Ca- ballé, and the fact that she shines brightly in New York’s Carnegie Hall. David Bižić has won over the hearts of audiences worldwide, performing at New York’s Metropolitan, the National Theatre in Paris, the royal operas of Madrid and Swe- den, Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Theatre etc. He is a star of the Metropolitan who has conquered numerous world opera houses, while Đorđe Nešić is a pianist répétiteur tu- tor and professor at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity. We spoke with Tamara about the upcoming concert and her fascinating op- era career. She says that she’s been playing the piano since she was six, but that her love for opera emerged quite by accident. The majority of her favourite roles are linked to the classical repertoire, to works written between the 1600s and the early 20th century. The avant-garde has not en- ticed her as yet, but she says she’ll also pay closer attention to it. With an awareness that opera is often perceived as elitism, Tamara considers that there are ways to approach a wider audience – by placing oers on so- cial networks, or through modern produc- tions that recast older works in time frames that are closer to us.“Opera music belongs to those who understand it, regardless of the social class to which they belong,”says
DAVID BIŽIĆ: TOPLA BEOGRADSKA PUBLIKA
– Za umetnika ne postoji veće zadovoljstvo i uz- buđenje od toga da svoje delo podeli sa publikom uživo – smatra bariton David Bižić. Njemu svaki izlazak na scenu predstavlja jedin- stveni osećaj „neočekivanog i neukroćenog“, u ipak kontrolisanoj situaciji. Susret sa beoradskom publikom nakon 10 godina znači mu još više jer su to, kako kaže, njegovi ljudi sa kojima deli deo ži- vota, iskustva i istoriju. – Beogradska publika je uvek važila za toplu publi- ku, onu pred kojom se svako oseća dobrodošlim. Beograđani su oduvek dobri domaćini koji će za gosta uraditi i više nego što treba – otkriva Bižić, zbog čega se naročito raduje ovom koncertu. “There is no greater pleasure and excitement for an artist than when he can share his work with a live audience,” in the opinion baritone David Bižić. Every appearance on stage for him represents a unique feeling of the “unexpected and untamed”, in a none- theless controlled situation. His encounter with the Belgrade audience after 10 years means even more to him, because, as he says, those are his peo- ple, with whom he shares part of his life, experienc- es and history. “The Belgrade audience has always been know for being warm, an audience in front of which everyone feels welcome. Belgraders have always been good hosts who will do more than they need to for their guest,” says Bižić, explaining why he is particularly looking forward to this concert. DAVID BIŽIĆ: WARM BELGRADE AUDIENCE
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