Suzana Šuvaković Savić

About Artist

In the begining
Since the very young age she showed a big musical sensibility. After first musical studies she specialized the classical accordion, achieving soon the virtuosity. As a teenager, in years 1984-85, Suzana won five international contests, and for some years she continued her solo carrier with this instrument.

Soprano
In the beginning of the nineties, her professor of piano advised her to start the studies of singing on the University of the Musical Arts in Belgrade. Even before the end of the course she got the engagement from the Opera of the National Theatre of Belgrade. Soon, she won the first prize on the international contest "Petar Konjovich" in Belgrade. Suzana continued her artistic improvement achieving the Master degree with the famous Serbian singer as professor, soprano Radmila Bakochevich. For the Italian repertoire she studies with maestro Carlo Ventura.

Belgrade
From her debut as Tebaldo she continued performing the principal roles of lyrical soprano at The Nationel Theatre of Belgrade as Mimì (La Bohème), Liù (Turandot), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Eurydice (Orpheus and Eurydice), Micaela (Carmen), etc. She has also performed in numerous concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra from Belgrade and the Orchestra of Serbian Radio Television, recently The Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler conducted by Maestro Urosh Lajovich and one concert organized by Italian Embassy in Belgrade, conducted by Maestro Marcello Rota.

Italy
From 2002 Suzana starts her Italian carrier and she performed on the stages of Ascoli Piceno, Bassano del Grappa, Latina, Rieti, and Civitavecchia. Soon she will appear in Teatro Dell’Opera in Rome.

The World
Christmas 2003: The spectacular performance in Seoul, where Suzana was Musetta in "La Bohème", with the audience of 10,000 people in Olympic Gymnasium, was only the beginning. Next stop was Olympic Athens in May 2004 with "Pinocchio".

                                                      Recent appointments:

• March 2009

Eugene Onegin (P.I. Tchaikovsky) - Tatiana

Teatro di Tradizione Dante Alighieri (Ravenna - Italy)
Teatro Sociale Comune di Rovigo (Rovigo - Italy)

• January 2009

Turandot (G. Puccini) - Liù

Teatro Ventidio Basso (Ascoli Piceno - Italy)
Opera De Massy (Massy - France)

• December 2008

Stabat Mater (G.B. Pergolesi )

San Ferdinando - Italy,
Rosarno - Italy,
Gioia Tauro - Italy

• Jun 2008

The Diary of Anne Frank (Grigory Frid) - Anne Frank

Teatro Madlenianum
Zemun - Belgrade

• 2008

National Theatre of Belgrade Award for the part of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin

• 2007

Concert with Slavko Nikolić
St. Cuprian’s Church (London)

Solo concert in Oslo
National Theatre of Belgrade Award for the part of Nedda in Pagliacci


                                             Some dear and important experiences ...

• Partners:
Silvano Carroli, Paolo Coni, Maria Pia Ionata, Giorgio Merighi, Antonio Salvadori, Dimitra Theodossiou...
 
• Conductors:
Maurizio Arena, Marco Berdondini, Urosh Lajovich, Paolo Olmi, Rafael Pylarinos, Donato Renzetti, Francesco Rosa, Marcello Rota, Jonathan Webb, Christopher Franklin...
 
• Directors:
Daniele Abbado, Yves Bernard, Christoforos Christofis, Rocco Pugliese Eerola, Antonio Calenda...
 
Repertoire:
• G. Puccini - La Bohème: Mimí, Musetta
• G. Puccini - Turandot: Liù
• G. Puccini - Gianni Schicchi: Lauretta
• G. Verdi - Otello: Desdemona
• G. Verdi - Falstaff: Mrs Alice Ford
• P.I. Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin: Tatiana
• S. Binicki - Na uranku: Stanka (serbian opera)
• C. Gounod - Faust: Marguerite
• G. Bizet - Carmen: Micaela
• W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni: Donna Elvira
• W.A. Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro: Cherubino
• E. Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel: Gertrude
• A. Cericola - Pinocchio: Blue Fairy

Web site: http://www.suzanasavic.com

Main Data

Soloist (SOPRANO)
Ensemble: Opera
Status: Principal Singer (resident)