Suzana Šuvaković Savić

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Suzana Šuvaković Savić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Сузана Шуваковић Савић ; January 13, 1969 in Majdanpek , SFR Yugoslavia - October 18, 2016 in Belgrade , Serbia ) was a Serbian opera singer who vocalized lyric soprano and performed mainly at the national theater in Italy and Belgrade had great success, especially in Puccini roles.

life and work

Šuvaković Savić studied with the soprano Radmila Bakočević at the University of the Arts in Belgrade and was engaged at the National Theater in Belgrade , the first opera house in Serbia, during her studies . She made her debut there in the trouser role of Tybalt in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette .

On the opera stage

Shortly after her debut, she won the Petar Konjović International Singing Competition in Belgrade, completed her studies with a Magister Artium and received a long-term engagement at the Belgrade National Theater. At her parent company she interpreted almost all the important roles in the lyric soprano subject. She sang Micaëla in Carmen , the title role in Adriana Lecouvreur , Marguerite in Faust , Nedda in Pagliacci and Tatjana in Eugene Onegin . The singer's repertoire and career were particularly shaped by four roles in Giacomo Puccini's veristic operas : Mimi, Cio Cio-san, Liù and Tosca. All four tragically die at a young age, three choose suicide in a hopeless situation. At least in the concert hall she sang Violetta Valery in Verdi's La traviata . She is also in operas by Gluck and Mozart occurred, but also as Stanka in Na uranku , an opera by the Serbian composer Stanislav Binički and as Anne Frank in the opera The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigori Frid . The singer became a star in her homeland.

From 2002 she appeared at a number of traditional opera houses in Italy - in Ascoli Piceno , Bari , Bassano del Grappa , Civitavecchia , Fermo , Jesi , Latina , Padua , Ravenna , Reggio nell'Emilia , Rieti , Rovigo , but also at the Teatro dell'Opera von Rome and at the Opéra de Massy . During the 2004 Summer Olympics she sang in Le avventure di Pinocchio by Antonio Cericola in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus of Athens.

In October 2013 she took on the role of Fausta, the second wife of Emperor Constantine, in the world premiere of the opera In Hoc Signo by Dejan Miladinović (text) and Marco Frisina (music). It was a commissioned work by the Vatican on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Tolerance of Milan , the performance took place at the National Theater in Belgrade.

In the concert hall and on television

She also played a number of concerts, for example in Gioia Tauro , London , Oslo , Rosarno , San Ferdinando , Trieste and Vienna . Her concert repertoire ranged from Pergolesi's Stabat mater to Mahler's Fourth Symphony . In the South Korean capital Seoul, she was heard in concert as Musetta - in a stadium in front of an audience of more than 10,000. Suzana Šuvaković Savić has performed regularly with the Belgrade Philharmonic and the Serbian Radio Orchestra , often in entertainment programs on Serbian TV.

At the New Year's Concert 2013 she sang El vito , a traditional folk song from Andalusia. On December 12, 2014, she gave a solo concert on the big stage of the National Theater - in honor of Pucini , the composer who had the greatest influence on her career. In June 2015 she performed at the gala concert of the National Theater. On November 22nd, 2015, the day of the National Theater, the artist received an award for outstanding artistic achievements and her entire work. In a last interview for Theater News in January 2016, she explains that the talent needed to sing opera is "a gift from God" and how to deal with it. In the last years of her life she also worked as a singing teacher in the Borislav Popović Opera Studio of the National Theater. On March 1, 2016, she sang the aria of Musetta in a concert at the National Theater.

Šuvaković Savić has worked with the following conductors, among others: Maurizio Arena , Marco Berdondini , Urosh Lajovich , Paolo Olmi , Rafael Pylarinos , Donato Renzetti , Francesco Rosa , Marcello Rota , Jonathan Webb , Christopher Franklin . She was seen in productions by the following directors: Daniele Abbado , Yves Bernard , Antonio Calenda , Christoforos Christofis and Rocco Pugliese Eerola .

She died of complications from cancer at the age of 47. The artist's memorial service and burial at Lešće cemetery took place on October 21, 2016.

Roles (selection)

Binički :

  • Stanka in Na uranku

Bizet :

Cilea :

Luck :

Gounod :

Humperdinck :

Leoncavallo :

 

Mozart :

Puccini :

Tchaikovsky :

Verdi :

Awards

  • International Petar Konjović Competition for Young Musicians (early 1990s)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Belgrade National Theater : Preminula Suzana Šuvaković Savić , accessed on November 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Belgrade National Theater : Suzana Šuvaković Savić , accessed on November 20, 2016 (English)
  3. ↑ B92 (Belgrade): In Hoc Signo opera premieres in Belgrade , October 9, 2013, accessed on November 20, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ Intermagazin: Преминула Сузана Шуваковић Савић , October 19, 2016, accessed on the same day (Serbian)
  5. ↑ Balkan Insight: Classics Arias Feature at New Year's Eve Gala Concert , January 12, 23013, accessed on November 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ National Theater Belgrade : Tribute to Puccini , November 4, 2014, accessed on November 20, 2016 (English)
  7. ↑ Blic (Belgrade): Preminula Suzana Šuvaković Savić , October 18, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016 (Serbian)
  8. ↑ Telegraf (Belgrade): Preminula Suzana Šuvaković Savić, prvakinja Opere Narodnog pozorišta , October 18, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016 (Serbian)
  9. ↑ Nezavisne : Preminula operska pjevačica Suzana Šuvaković Savić , October 18, 2016 Retrieved on November 20, 2016 (Serb.)
  10. ↑ Kurir (Belgrade): ODLAZAK DIVE: Preminula prvakinja Beogradske opere Suzana Šuvaković Savić , October 18, 2016, accessed on November 20, 2016 (Serbian)
personal data
SURNAME Šuvaković Savić, Suzana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шуваковић Савић, Сузана
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Majdanpek , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2016
Place of death Belgrade , Serbia