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The Serbian soprano, Radoslava Vorgić Žuržovan, gave her first stage appearance at six years old. She finished her studies and received a degree in music pedagogy and voice at the Music Academy of Novi Sad with Professor Milica Stojadinović in Serbia (2010); and completed her Master’s studies in concert and operatic singing as well as postgraduate studies with Professor Claudia Eder at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany (2015). She has taken master-classes specialized for Baroque music with Ton Koopman, Emma Kirkby, Anna Bonitatibus, Andreas Scholl and Elisabeth Scholl, Wolfgang Katschner, Martin Gester, Marijana Mijanovic, and on the other hand the master-classes by the most famous opera singers such like Felicity Lott, Cheryl Studer, Helen Donath, Janice Alder. She won the competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in Germany. She is a young Ambassador of the Laza Kostic Fund and the first woman Knight, as well as a recipient of many awards at state and international competitions for young operatic singers, of which the most notable are Haendel Prize in IBLA Competition in Italy and the 1st Prize for a young singer and audience prize at the Internationales Meistersingerwettbewerb in Neustadt, Germany.
In the beginning of her career Radoslava Vorgić was a member of the Junges Ensemble in Staatstheater Mainz and could immediately perform a lot of interesting roles, from the Baroque opera like Armida in George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo to 20th century opera such as Lucia in the Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia. She had the opportunity to participate in rediscovering Baroque operas such as Alessandro Scarlatti's Il primo omicidio overo Cain, A. Scarlatti's La Giuditta, C. Pallavicino's La Gerusalemme liberata and became more and more a specialist for Baroque music. Furthermore she took the opportunity to sing Susanna in W.A. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with great success and Flaminia in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna. She has a great stage presence, which allows her to be able to sing comedian roles such as Jacques Offenbach's Coscoletto.
Nowadays Radoslava Vorgić is a sought-after soloist by several festivals, concert organizations, orchestras and ensembles, such as Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Jugend Orchester ODEON (Munich), Neumeyer Consort (Frankfurt), New Trinity Baroque, Sarband Ensemble, etc. She is a member of a specialist program BAROCK VOKAL in Mainz. She had concerts in the opening and closing of the 13th Belgrade Baroque Festival.
As a regular guest at Staatstheater Wiesbaden Radoslava Vorgić has been invited for a World’s premiere of opera Schönerland by Nils Sören Eichberg. As Angelica in G.F. Handel's Orlando and as Ninfa & Proserpina in C. Monteverdi's Orfeo she had the opportunity to work with maestro Predrag Gosta in Opera & Theatre Madlenianum, which led to a guest performance in State Opera Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. As Aspasia in W.A. Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto she had her debut in Switzerland in Stadttheater Biel/Solothurn.
For the sixth time Radoslava Vorgić returned to the 69th Young Artists Festival Bayreuth with recital at Piano Haus Steingraeber & Sons in Rokokosaal on Liszt piano with Mariann Kereny. She collaborated with maestro and harpsichordist Martin Gester and sang Vespetta in Georg Philipp Telemann's Pimpinone, with several performances in Germany and France. Besides opera activities she is a member of a women’s ensemble Kaliomene with whom she has participated in a Rhineland-Palatinate Tour with several concerts through the cities of Germany with gregorian chant.
At the beginning 2020, Radoslava Vorgic had the opportunity to sing again in wonderful city in Germany, Wiesbaden. Solo Soprano in G.F. Handel's Messiah with Christian Pfeifer as a conductor and a new role in State Theater Wiesbaden in modern opera Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage, with Albert Horne as a conductor and Bernd Mottl, stage director. |
