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 lirico-spinto soprano based in Vienna, performing regularly on opera and concert stages in Croatia and abroad. She completed her vocal studies at the Academy of Music in Zagreb under the guidance of Martina Zadro and Dunja Vejzović, and continued her postgraduate training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Claudia Visca.
She has received numerous international awards, including the Grand Prix at the International Jānis Zābers Singing Competition in Riga, first prizes at the IMMC Maribor and Gabriela Beňačková competitions, and the Zagreb Philharmonic Award for Best Young Musician.
On the operatic stage, she has performed a wide range of notable roles, including Mimì and Musetta (La Bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Gräfin Mariza, Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Jelena, Melka, and many others. Most recently, she appeared as Sieglinde.
As a concert soloist, she has performed works such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiems, and Bruckner’s Te Deum, collaborating with ensembles including the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Klang Symphony Orchestra, Croatian Armed Forces Symphony Orchestra, Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, Maribor Opera Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Throughout her career, she has worked with conductors such as Pavle Dešpalj, Nikša Bareza, Leopold Hager, Hans Graf, David Danzmayr, Lorenzo Passerini, and Mason Luberto, and has appeared on international concert tours across Europe and Asia. Particularly noteworthy is her recent concert tour of China with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mason Luberto.
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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