Katija Dragojevic

Katija Dragojevic with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Berwaldhalle (March 2016)

Katija Dragojevic Nylander (born July 14, 1970 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Dragojevic attended the Adolf Fredriks music class in Stockholm and sang in their girls' choir. She then studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2000 she made her debut as Krista in Janáček's The Makropulos Case at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels . Her international career led her as Kate Pinkerton and Siebel to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, as Cherubino at the 2009 and 2011 Salzburg Festival , to Stockholm , Oslo and Luxembourg and, finally, in the spring of 2012, at the Milan Scala , as Varvara after Glasgow and Gothenburg, as well as Annio to the Edinburgh Festival and Sesto to the Drottningholm Palace Theater .

At the Royal Opera in Stockholm she also sang the page in Salome and Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff , in Oslo the title role in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia , in Helsinki the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola , in London and New York she was as Lichas can be heard in Handel's Hercules with Les Arts Florissants . At the Theater an der Wien Dragojevic debuted in 2011 as La Musica, Messaggiera and Speranza in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo . 2012 she played there the Melanto in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and in March 2014 she sang in Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Da Ponte cycle the Dorabella . She also took on this role at La Scala under Daniel Barenboim . From February to March 2015 she played Xerxes in the opera of the same name by Georg Friedrich Händel at the Royal Opera in Stockholm .

Her concert repertoire includes Bach's Magnificat , Mozart's Great Mass in C minor and Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn , as well as Michael Haydn's Missa Sancti Hieronymi and the Temete Dominum . She was heard as a soloist at the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm in 2000 , and she played and sang Zerlina in Kasper Holten's film adaptation of Don Giovanni , a role that she also performed on the stage in Baden-Baden - alongside Anna Netrebko as Donna Anna - embodied.

personal data
SURNAME	Dragojevic, Katija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dragojevic Nylander, Katija (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm , Sweden