Saška Kolarič, Aco Bišćević

Tuesday  30. 8. 2022   20:30

Minorite Monastery of St Francis, Piran

Saška Kolarič, alto
Aco Bišćević, tenor

Programme:

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828): Licht und Liebe, D. 352 - Lied der Mignon III (Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister), D. 877

Gretchen am Spinnrade", D.118 - Du bist die Ruh, D.776 - Rastlose Liebe, D 138

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Der Zauberer, KV 472 - Als Luise die Briefe, KV 520

Dans un bois solitaire, K.308 - Un'aura amorosa (Così fan tutte), KV 588 - Un moto di gioia mi sento, K. 579

Francesco Pollini (1762 – 1846): Tre Canzone

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848): Il giuramento 

Vicenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835): Quando incise su quel marmo - Vaga Luna - La farfalletta - Il fervido desiderio

Malinconia, ninfa gentile - Ma rendi pur contento

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848): La conocchia - L'Aurora

 

Saška Kolarič, alto

Graduated in 1986 with honours at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and was awarded the title Magistra artium. She further studied with renowned opera singers and musicians (Norman Shatler, Brigitte Fassbander, Edita Gruberova, Bernarda Fink, Yuri Reja, etc.), and the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, Margarita Lilova, played a central role in her education.
Saška Kolarič has collaborated with the Slovene National Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, where she has appeared as a soloist in the roles of Janko (E. Humperdinck: Janko and Metka), Cherubino (Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro) and Kuharček (The Cook).

(For thirteen years she was a full-time professor of singing at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet, and today she passes on her knowledge to young singers at the Škofja Loka Music School. She sings and gives concerts at home and abroad (Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Algeria, Chile, Russia...).  

Aco Bišćević, tenor

Tenor and pianist Aco Biscevic made his debut at the Scala di Milano after studying singing and harpsichord at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has performed all over Europe in opera houses (Berlin, Innsbruck, Ljublana, Munich) and at various festivals such as Salzburg Summer Games, Trame Sonore Mantua, Styriarte in Graz, Bad Ems.

He has appeared as an opera singer, a singer of lieder and as an evangelist in performances of Bach’s Passions. mainly in northern Europe and Germany. As a concert singer he has performed with conductors such as Michael Hofstetter, Theodor Guschelbauer, Jordi Savall, Reinhard Goebel, Vittorio Ghielmi, Ingo Metzmacher, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt.