Aida Čorbadžić (born 8 March 1976) is a Bosnian opera singer. She was born in

Zavidovići Zavidovići ( sr-cyrl, Завидовићи) is a city and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located be ...

and lives in

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. She primarily sings soprano. She received a special award at the secondary competition of music schools in

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Education

Čorbadžić studied singing at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, graduating in 2006. Aida is a recipient of the Sarajevo municipality scholarship as well as the

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-based Central and Eastern European Musiktheater fellowship. She attended Secondary Music School in Sarajevo and in

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, Slovenia.

Career

In 2004, Čorbadžić joined the National Opera of Sarajevo's choir, which employed her as a soloist in 2007. She performed as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sarajevo at venues in Bosnia and Herzegovina,

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, Slovenia and France. Her roles include Barbarina in ''

Le nozze di Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), 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 premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna ...

'', Adele in ''

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''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 literary source for ' was ...

'', Shepard in ''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

'', Amore in '' Orfeo ed Euridice'', Belinda in ''

Dido and Aeneas ''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque music, Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncer ...

'', Cobance in '' Ero s onoga svijeta'', Adina in ''

L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (; ''The Elixir of Love'') is a (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's (1831). ...

'', Musetta in '' La Boheme'' and Dijete in ''Srebrenicanke''. She also played a lead in East West Theatre Company's 2011 production of Roses for Anne Teresa/Football Stories, directed by

Haris Pašović Haris Pašović (born 16 July 1961) is a Bosnian theatre director. Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright, producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for his productions of Wedekind's “Spring Aw ...

.East West Theatre Company Official Website: ''Roses for Anne Teresa/Football Stories'' [cited February 01, 2012]
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbadzic, Aida 1976 births Living people Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina 21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina women singers University of Sarajevo alumni People from Zavidovići