Dušica Bijelić

Soprano

Website: www.dusicabijelicsoprano.com

Biography

Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina Dušica Bijelić 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 Bijelić 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 Bijelić joined the ensemble of Theater Bielefeld and has already performed La Contessa Le Nozze di Figaro, Marguérite Faust the title role of Rusalka, Mimì La Boheme, Clara Egmont, Rosalinde Die Fledermaus, Tatyana Eugene Onegin, the title role of Zaza and the soprano solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.

Roles performed

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Conductors and Opera Directors she has worked with

Marco Armiliato; Semyon Bychkov; Nicola Luisotti; Daniel Oren Antonio Pappano,; Simon Rattle.
Daniele Abbado; Nicolas Joël; Stephen Langridge; David McVicar; Laurent Pelly; Ira Siff; Fabio Sparvoli.

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