Jasmin Bašić (born 7 December 1971) is a Bosnian

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and author. He graduated in 2003 and obtained his Master of Music Degree (Vocal performance and pedagogy) from

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the larges ...

in 2006 under famous and world's recognized

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Radmila Bakočević Radmila Bakočević ( sr-Cyrl, Радмила Бакочевић, ; born January 5, 1933), is a Serbian operatic soprano who had a major international opera career that began in 1955 and ended upon her retirement from the stage in 2004. During he ...

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). Up to 2009, he specialized with the

Wiener Staatsoper The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August S ...

''Kammersängerin''

Olivera Miljaković Olivera Miljaković ( sr-Cyrl, Оливера Миљаковић, ; born 26 April 1934S. Đ. K. (Đurić Klajn, Stana), Miljaković, Olivera, ''Muzička enciklopedija'', vol. 2, Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski Zavod, 1974, pp. 586–587 is ...

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). He is employed at the National Theatre Sarajevo as opera soloist and is recognized as vocal pedagogue. Apart from that he also held solo concerts, and has collaborated with

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. In 2016. also jubilee opera season, he performed the duty of artistic director of the opera in Sarajevo.

Opera repertoire

Nabucco ''Nabucco'' (, short for Nabucodonosor ; en, " Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, ...

(Verdi) – Ismaele *

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Евгений Оне́гин, ромáн в стихáх, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn, r=Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh) is a novel in verse written by Ale ...

(Tschaikowsky) – Lenski *

Hasanaginica ''Hasanaginica'', also ''Asanaginica'', (first published as ''The Mourning Song of the Noble Wife of the Hasan Aga'') is a South Slavic folk ballad, created during the period of 1646–49, in the region of Imotski, which at the time was a part ...

(Horozić) – Judge of Imotski *

Nikola Šubić Zrinski (opera) ''Nikola Šubić Zrinski'' is an opera written and composed by Ivan Zajc in 1876. It is a retelling of the Battle of Szigetvár of 1566, in which Nikola IV Zrinski, Ban of Croatia and captain of the assembled Croatian and Hungarian forces, took ...

(Zajc) – Great Vesire *

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that inclu ...

(Mozart) – Monostatos *

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

(Mozart) – Don Ottavio *

Le nozze di Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premie ...

(Mozart) – Basilio *

Bastien and Bastienne ' (''Bastien and Bastienne''), K. 50 (revised in 1964 to K. 46b) is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ' was one of Mozart's earliest operas, written in 1768 when he was only twelve years old. It was allegedly commi ...

(Mozart) – Bastien *

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali ''Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali'' (''Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage''), also known as ''Viva la mamma'' and ''Viva la Diva'', is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was writte ...

(Viva la mamma) (Donizetti) - Stefano *

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

(Bizet) – Remendado * Safikada (Insanić) – Asker * The Hedgehog's Little House (Vauda) – Wolf (opera for children) * Aska and The Wolf (Horozić) – Doctor Ovnovic (opera for children) *

La Traviata ''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...

(Verdi) – Gaston de Letoriéres *

Rigoletto ''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play ''Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had cont ...

(Verdi) – Borsa

Operatic repertoire

Orpheus in the Underworld ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and ''Orpheus in Hell'' are English names for (), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act " opéra bouffon" at the Thé� ...

(Offenbach) – Jupiter *

The Merry Widow ''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt t ...

(Lehar) – Ambassador Zeta *

Die Csárdásfürstin ' (''The Csárdás Princess''; translated into English as ''The Riviera Girl'' and ''The Gipsy Princess'') is an operetta in 3 acts by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, with libretto by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. It premiered in Vienna at the ...

(The Csárdás Princess) / (Kalman) – Graf Boni Kancianu *

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original ...

(The Bat) / (Strauss) – Alfred

Musical

Cabaret (musical) ''Cabaret'' is a 1966 musical theatre, musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff. The musical was based on John Van Druten's 1951 play ''I Am a Camera'' which was adapted from ''Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939) ...

(John Kander / Fred Ebb). Adaptation of the musical film "Cabaret" (1972) directed by Bob Fosse – The Emcee *

Annie (musical) ''Annie'' is a Broadway theatre, Broadway musical theatre, musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip ''Little Orphan Annie'' and loosely based on the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" written by James Whitcomb Riley. The musical incl ...

(music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan) – Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks

Bibliography

* Primadonna Gertruda Munitić. Museum of Literature & Performing Arts Sarajevo, 2017. * Krunoslav Kruno Cigoj Museum of Literature & Performing Arts Sarajevo, Matica hrvatske Mostar, Croat Cultural Society Napredak Sarajevo, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts B&H, 2019.

Concert repertoire

* L. van Beethoven – Fantasie in C-minor (Solo piano: Mo. Jörg Demus) * J. Slavenski – Oriental Symphony * A. Pavlič – Missa bosniensis

Recordings

* CD (live recording) (tenor solo) – "Bosnian Te Deum"- oratorio (M. Katavić)Naslovnica CD klasika: Pontanima, Bosanski Te Deum Zvuk zbližavanja
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Gallery

Image:Die lustige Witwe.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Ambassador Zeta Image:Hasanaginica.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Judge of Imotski Image:Ballosa.jpg, Jasmin Bašić Image:Jasmin Bašić as Jupiter.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Jupiter Image:NabuccoSA.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Ismael Image:Le nozze.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Basilio Image:Bastien.jpg, Jasmin Bašić as Bastien Image:Koncert.jpg, Jasmin Bašić in concert "Hommage a Tschaikovsky" Image:OliveraMiljakovic.jpg, With Olivera Miljaković Image:Radmila.jpg,

References

National Theatre Sarajevo / Opera

External links

Opera Hasanaginica

Hommage a Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Jasmin Bašić, concert

Jasmin Bašić, repertoire

An evening of opera arias

Collaboration with the Association of Artists "Bellarte"

* ttp://www.sarajevotimes.com/finally-real-musical-sarajevo-cabaret-2014-september-28th-sloga/ Famous musical Cabaret in Sarajevo
Musical Annie in Sarajevo

"Primadonna Gertruda Munitić" by Jasmin Bašić

Reportage from the promotion of monograph "Primadonna Gertruda Munitić"

Reportage from the promotion of monograph "Krunoslav Kruno Cigoj"
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