Simándy
Competiton 2021

Contestants

Vesna Đurković

„soprano”

Vesna Đurković

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

  • Gounod: Faust - Que vois-je là?... Ah, je ris de me voir si belle (Marguerite)

Semi-Final

  • Mozart: Don Giovanni - Crudele? Ah, no mio bene .. Non mi dir , bell' idol mio (Donna Anna)   
  • Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin - Heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland! (Sylvia)

Final 

  • Verdi: La Traviata - È strano! è strano!... Sempre libera (Violetta)
  • Tchaikovsky: Iolanta - Otchgo’ eto prezhde ne znala (Iolanta)

Biography

The Serbian soprano Vesna Đurković (born in 1992), received her master’s diploma in opera singing at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. Between 2016 and 2018 she was a member of the Opera Studio of the National Theatre Belgrade.

In the recent years, she visited master courses by Krum Galabov, Daniela Diakova, Bojidar Nikolov, Olga Makarina, David Bižić, Predrag Gosta and Marijana Mijanović.

She won numerous awards, among others the first price of the Nikola Cvejić International Singing Competition in 2016, the Award of AR Vojvodina Talents in 2011, the first price and the Award for the Most Beautiful Voice of the Bruna Spiler Competition (2011), the first price of the Obzorja na Tisi International Competition (2011) and the first price of the Lazar Jovanović International Singing Competition (2010). 

She has a great number of concert and opera performances behind her:

2020 – Concert with the Zrenjanin Philharmonic Orchestra – c: A. Kojić

2019 – Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Vojvodina – c: A. Kojić

2019 – F. Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Soprano solo – c: E. Salmieri

2019 – G. Verdi – Rigoletto – Gilda – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: D. Savić

2019 – G. Puccini – La Bohème – Musetta – Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad – c: A. Solinas

2018 – L. v. Beethoven – Egmont – Soprano solo – Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra – c: G. Feltz

2018 – G. Puccini – La Bohème – Musetta – Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad – c: A. Kojić

2018 – G. Verdi - Un ballo in maschera – Oscar – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: Z. Mitev

2018 – J. Strauss II - Die Fledermaus – Adele – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: S. Zekić

2018 – W. A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro – Barbarina – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: S. Zekić

2017 – G. Puccini – La Bohème – Musetta – Serbian National – Theatre in Novi Sad – c: G. Marciano

2017 – P. I. Tchaikovsky - Iolanta – Laura – Operosa Opera Festival – Herceg Novi – c: E. Salmieri

2017 – P. I. Tchaikovsky – Iolanta – Iolanta cover – Operosa Opera Festival – Herceg Novi – c: E. Salmieri

2017 – W. A. Mozart - The Magic Flute – First Lady – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: S. Zekić

2017 – G. Puccini – Gianni Schicchi – Nella – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: Dj. Stanković

2016 – S. Prokofiev – Maddalena – Maddalena – Russian House, Belgrade – c: M. Ilić

2015 – Concert of “Zeljko Lucic and friends” – Zrenjanin Philharmonic Orchestra – c: A. Bursać

2015 – Concert with Zrenjanin Philharmonic Orchestra – c: M. Jeftić

2015 – J. Strauss II – Die Fledermaus – Adele – DADOV Theatre in Belgrade; BELEF festival &

National Theatre in Belgrade – c: D. Radaković

2014 – C. Monteverdi – The Coronation of Poppea – Drusilla – Madlenianum Opera & Theatre in Belgrade – c: P. Gosta

2013 – H. Purcell - Dido and Aeneas – Belinda – National Theatre in Belgrade – c: P. Gosta

 

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