How to become the opera singer in Serbia?
Country that bears the legacy of folklore as the tendency prefers ethnic folk music requires constant effort in the popularisation of high art – classical music. Given the late introduction of the classics (due to the famous Turk occupation), it is the surprise that during 50’s of XX century, Belgrade Opera was renowned as one of the world’s best opera houses. Today, unfortunately, such image vanished. Two state opera house (Belgrade, Novi Sad), a private chamber one (Madlenianum, Belgrade) and the quiet whisper of conception scene in Ni and Kragujevac, give only the imaginary possibility of choice and diversity. Policy of the houses is not propitious to the influence of youth power (which is logical because there are enough full-time employees), and the auditions are phantasmagoria categories. Why would a talented professional after 10 years of education decide to focus on opera singing and not sing on the ‘splavovi’ (clubs on the river)? I believe that the only answer to this questio
