Tanja Ruždjak
"Tanja has a warm and powerful voice with a uniquely wide range, which easily copes with the most demanding of musical lines."
Biography
Tanja Ruždjak is a Croatian opera singer and lirico-spinto soprano based in Vienna, regularly performing on opera and concert stages in Croatia and internationally. She completed her vocal studies at the University of Zagreb Academy of Music under Martina Zadro and Dunja Vejzović, and continued her postgraduate training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) in the class of Claudia Visca.
She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Jānis Zābers International Vocal Competition in Riga, First Prizes at the IMMC Maribor and Gabriela Beňačková International Singing Competitions, as well as the Zagreb Philharmonic Award for Best Young Musician.
As an opera soprano, she has performed a wide range of roles, including Mimì and Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Vitellia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s The Merry Widow, the title role in Kálmán’s Gräfin Mariza, Rosalinde in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, as well as Jelena and Melka in works from the Croatian operatic repertoire. More recently, she has also performed Sieglinde from Wagner’s Die Walküre.
As a concert soloist, she has performed major works of the symphonic and vocal-orchestral repertoire, including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiem, and Bruckner’s Te Deum. She has collaborated with ensembles including the Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Klang Symphonie, Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Armed Forces, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, Maribor Opera Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Throughout her international career, she has worked with conductors including Pavle Dešpalj, Nikša Bareza, Leopold Hager, Hans Graf, David Danzmayr, Lorenzo Passerini, and Mason Luberto, and has appeared in concerts and international tours throughout Europe and Asia. Among her more recent international projects is a concert tour in China.
Tanja Ruždjak is a Croatian opera singer and soprano based in Vienna, with a repertoire spanning opera, operetta, concert works, and Lied.
Repertoire
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| Role | Opera | Author | Time and location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tatiana | Eugene Onegin | P. I. Tchaikovsky | Cres Opera Festival, 2013. |
| Giuseppe Kashman Opera Festival, 2014. | |||
| Mimi | La Boheme | G. Puccini | Croatian National Theatre Osijek, 2014/2015. |
| Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, 2016/2017. | |||
| Cleopatra | Julio Cesare | G. F. Handel | SKOP organisation, Split, 2014. |
| Lucia | Lucia di Lamermoor | G. Donizetti | Barcelona Opera studio, A Tempo, Barcelona 2014. |
| Musetta | La Boheme | G. Puccini | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, 2015. |
| Susanna | La Nozze Di Figaro | W. A. Mozart | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, 2016./ 2017. |
| Lucy | Die Dreigroschenoper | K. Weil | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, 2015. |
| Princess Ninetta | The Love For Three Oranges | S. Prokofiev | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, 2017./2018. |
| Jelena | Nikola Šubić Zrinjski | Ivan Zajc | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2017. |
| Melka | Adel i Mara | Josip Hatze | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2017./2018. |
| Annina | La Traviata | G.Verdi | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2016. |
| First Nobleman of Brabant | Lohengrin | R. Wagner | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2012./2013.Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2013./2014. |
| Erste Dame | Die Zauberflöte | W. A. Mozart | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2022. |
| Rosalinde | Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss | Istrian National Opera Pula 2021. |
| Yvette | La Rondine | G. Puccini | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2021.. |
| Jelena | Nikola Šubić Zrinjski | Ivan Zajc | Croatian National Theatre Zagreb 2022. |
| Role | Opera | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Adina | L Elisir D’Amore | G.Donizetti |
| Michaela | Carmen | G. Bizet |
| Violetta | La Traviata | G.Verdi |
| Gilda | Rigoletto | G.Verdi |
| Pamina | Die Zauberflöte | W.A. Mozart |
| Konstanze | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | W.A. Mozart |
| Nedda | Pagliacci | R. Leoncavallo |
| Magda | La Rondine | G. Puccini |
| Fiordiligi | Cosi fan tutte | W.A.Mozart |
| Konigin der Nacht | Die Zauberflöte | W.A.Mozart |
| Cendrilion | Cendrilion | J. Massenet |
| Liu | Turandot | G. Puccini |
| Erste Dame | Die Zauberflöte | W.A.Mozart |
| Donna Anna | Don Giovanni | W.A. Mozart |
| Juliette | Capuleti e i Montecchi | V. Bellini |
| Elvira | I Puritani | V. Bellini |
| Marguerite | Faust | Ch. Gounod |
| Manon | Manon | J. Massenet |
| Donna Elvira | Don Giovanni | W.A. Mozart |
| Julietta | Romeo et Juliette | Ch. Gounod |
| Fiordiligi | Cosi Fan Tutte | W.A.Mozart |
| Amina | La Sonnambula | V.Bellini |
| Author | Composition |
|---|---|
| A.Vivaldi (1678-1741.) | Gloria in D major, RV 589 |
| J.S.Bach (1685-1750.) | Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a |
| Matthäuspassion, BWV 244b | |
| G.F. Handel (1685-1759.) | Laudate pueri Dominum HWV 237 |
| Joshua, HWV 64 | |
| Messiah, HWV 56 | |
| G.B.Pergolesi (1710-1736.) | Stabat Mater |
| J.Haydn (1732-1809.) | Die Schöpfung (Hob. XXI:2) |
| Stabat Mater | |
| W.A.Mozart (1756-1791.) | Ah se in ciel, K.538 |
| Basta, vincesti, K. 486 | |
| Bella mia fiamma, K. 528 | |
| Exsultate, jubilate, K.165/158a | |
| Missa brevis in B- flat major, K.275/272b | |
| Mass in C minor, KV.427 | |
| No , no, che non sei capace, K.419 | |
| Ch'io mi scordi di te? Non temer amato bene K.505 | |
| Requiem in D minor K.626 | |
| G.Rossini (1792-1868.) | Stabat Mater |
| F. Schubert (1797-1828.) | Mass No.2, D.167 |
| G.Verdi (1813-1901.) | Requiem |
| F.Mendelssohn (1809-1847.) | A Midsummer Nights Dream: Op. 21 |
| A. Dvořák (1841-1904.) | Stabat Mater, Op.58 |
| C. Orff (1895-1982.) | Carmina Burana |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827.) | The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
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"It does not happen often, but when artist can convey his emotions through music to the audience who receives it gladly, that is when magic blossoms...exactly that happened on a recital of Tanja Ruždjak and Eva-Kirchmayer Bilić.."
Zdenko Šulc
Novi list"In such a setting, light and rounded soprano of Tanja Ruždjak sounded nice."
Maja Stanetti, KLASIKA.hr
"Tanja Ruždjak, a young singer in the role of Mimi and also a guest in the premiere lining, had a precise performanse of the repetitive notes and the dramatic excitations of emotions in the duets. She has accomplished a really convincing role of Mimi. Her duet with Won Whi Choi was met with ovations."
Klasika.hr
"Tanja Ruždjak played charmingly the naïve, vulnerable Ninetta, the symbol of innocence, who comes out of the third orange.."
Operaportal.hu
"The festival was concluded by soprano Tanja Ruždjak and pianist Božo Letunić. The kaleidoscopic program consisted of Bellini, Donizzeti, Tosti and Puccini arias was smoothly alternated with the works of Gershwin, Tijardovich and Léhar. Tanja Ruždjak has a warm and powerful voice with a uniquely wide range, wich easily copes with the most demanding of musical lines."
Lovran Classic festival/poduckun.net
"In the role of Mimi there was Tanja Ruždjak with her gentle colored soprano. Her Mimi was expressed melodicly inventive, dynamically emotional and veristically expressive (ranging from self-conscious Mimi in the first act to the severely ill in the fourth act)..."
Glas Slavonije
Contact
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