Dušica Bijelić, Soprano. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. APA Artists' Management Alexandra Mercer - www.apaartistsmanagement.com/dusicabijelic/ Dušica Bijelić Susanna Branchini Scilla Cristiano Elena Kelessidi Dimitra Kotidou Lucie Kaňková Hye-Youn Lee Julie Martin du Theil Ekaterina Sadovnikova Anna Stylianaki Letitia Vitelaru Elena Zelenskaya Karina Kherunts Nefeli Kotseli Larisa Kostyuk Claudia Marchi Victoria Yarovaya Martina Mikelic Arnold Bezuyen Luciano Botelho Luis Gomes Dimitris Paksoglou Angelos Samartzis Marcin Bronikowski Michel de Souza Anooshah Golesorkhi Gyula Nagy Dimitri Platanias Tiziano Bracci Davide Damiani Luiz-Ottavio Faria Jihoon Kim Dušica Bijelić Soprano www.dusicabijelic.com Video (YouTube): Showreel Meine Lippen si küssen so heiß Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušica Bijeli? moved to Serbia where from just 12 years old, she was host of a children's show on Serbian National Television for five years. She went on to study singing at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade, then she attended the Vienna University of Music and received a full scholarship to attend the Opera Studio of Santa Cecilia in Rome under Renata Scotto. This was followed by the first year of a Master's degree at Bard College Conservatory in their Graduate Vocal Arts Program. She also received full scholarships to attend the Daniel Ferro Vocal Programme in Tuscany for six summers. She participated in master classes with Raul Gimenez and also with Renée Fleming, as part of Marilyn Horne's workshop The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall. Many competition successes followed including first prize in the Career Bridges Competition in New York and the Audience Prize at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival. She was a finalist in the Paris Opera Competition, a finalist in the Ferruccio Tagliavini Music Competition and was awarded first prize in the Nikola Cvejic International Singing Competition in Serbia. Dušica Bijeli? went on to join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, taking part in many productions with the company. She accompanied ROH Covent Garden on tour, appearing at the National Opera in Rio de Janeiro. All of this led The Independent newspaper, to select her as one of the top eight "Bright Young Things in the Arts". She also appears regularly in concert, including at Belgrade's Philharmonic Hall to sing Strauss's Four Last Songs and she sang soprano solo in the Mozart Requiem with the RTS Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured China, Italy, USA, France and Serbia. In 2019, Dušica Bijeli? joined the ensemble of Theater Bielefeld and has already performed successfully La Contessa Le Nozze di Figaro and Marguérite Faust. Future plans include the title role of Rusalka, Mimì La Boheme and the soprano solo in Verdi's Messa da Requiem. Bright Young Things For a singer to peak early may be a misfortune-the wings are full of those who failed to live up to their promise-but one petite young soprano we'd put money on is Dušica Bijeli?. Born in Bosnia, she moved to Serbia, and had string of eminent teachers before being accepted onto Covent Garden's Jette Parker training scheme. There she has given a masterly Berio recital and distinguished herself in supporting roles: this coming season she appears in Die Frau ohne Schatten and on 2 May she will make her debut as Barberina in Figaro- which is when the world will really clock her. The Independent, Friday 3 January 2014 Roles: ADELINA: Adelina DIE BAJADERE: Odette Darimond BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE: Bastienne COSI FAN TUTTE: Despina DON CARLO: Tebaldo L’ELISIR D’AMORE: Adina FAUST: Marguérite DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN: Guardian NABUCCO: Anna IL NOCE DI BENEVENTO: Clodina LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Barbarina LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Contessa PARSIFAL: First Esquire ROBERT LE DIABLE: Dama LA RONDINE: Yvette SUTON : Pavle IL VIAGGIO A REIMS: Contessa de Folleville WERTHER: Sophie Rossini in Wildbad Kolarac - Belgrade ROH Covent Garden, Linbury Studio Jette Parker Young Artists Programme ROH Covent Garden Teatro Verdi di Trieste Theater Bielefeld ROH Covent Garden ROH Covent Garden Rossini in Wildbad ROH Covent Garden Theater Bielefeld ROH Covent Garden ROH Covent Garden ROH Covent Garden Madlenijanum Theatre Teatro Real Teatro Verdi di Trieste Conductors and opera directors with whom she has worked include: Marco Armiliato; Semyon Bychkov; Nicola Luisotti; Daniel Oren Antonio Pappano,; Simon Rattle. Daniele Abbado; Nicolas Joel; Stephen Langridge; David McVicar; Laurent Pelly; Ira Siff; Fabio Sparvoli. Reviews: Ansonsten kann sich das Publikum über eine sehr gute musikalische Umsetzung der Oper freuen. Allen voran das neue Ensemble-Mitglied Dušica Bijeli?, der die Marguerite noch besser liegt als ihre gute Gräfin Almaviva. Ihre stabile Mittellage sitzt von dem Moment an, wenn sie den Chanson du Roi de Thule anstimmt. Dazu kann sie ihren Sopran fast federleicht führen, wenn sie sich in der Juwelen-Arie über den Glanz der Ketten und Ringe freut. Und schließlich überstrahlt sie mit geschmackvoller Dramatik das Schlussterzett." O-Ton - Rebecca Broermann - 2nd March 2020 Gastkünstlerin Dušica Bijeli? war Marguerite anvertraut; die Metamorphose vom un- schuldigen Mauerblümchen, jener zweifelhaften Frauenvor- stellung vorgeblich tugendhaf- ter Männlichkeit, zu dem Wah- ne verfallenen Kindesmörde- rin gelang ihr vorzüglich. Auch in den höchsten Höhen nie schrill werdend gefielen vor al- lem die dämonisch bedroh- lich gefärbten tiefen Passagen… Neue Westfälische - JohannesVetter - 2nd March 2020 Neu im Ensemble präsentiert sich Dušica Bijeli? in der schwierigen Rolle der Gräfin Almaviva und überzeugt mit melancholischen und stilsicheren Phrasen. O-Ton - Rebecca Hoffman - 27th October 2019 Ebenfalls neu im Ensamble ist Dušica Bijeli?, die eine zaudernd intrigante Gräfin spielt, genervt von den erotischen Eskapaden des Gatten. Außerordentlich gelungen war, ihr Einstand. Neue Westfälische - JohannesVetter, 5th October 2019 --> Download (Pdf) s APA Artists' Management / Alexandra Mercer T. +44 (0)771 037 8719 - Skype: apa_artists - www.apaartistsmanagement.com