Jadranka Jovanović Explained

Jadranka Jovanović
Native Name:Јадранка Јовановић
Office:Member of the National Assembly of Serbia
Term Start:3 June 2016
Parliamentarygroup:Serbia is Winning
Birth Date:8 January 1958
Birth Place:Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Party:Serbian Progressive Party
Awards:Order of Karađorđe's Star

Jadranka Jovanović (Serbian: Јадранка Јовановић; pronounced as /sr/; born 8 January 1958) is a Serbian operatic mezzo-soprano who has an active career natively and internationally.[1] Associated with the National Theatre in Belgrade, she has also been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016.

Life and musical career

Jovanović was born in Belgrade. In her native town she graduated B.A. in theory of music and solo singing and M.A. in solo singing.She debuted as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the National Theater in Belgrade, where she interpreted all main mezzo-soprano roles.

Her international career started at Teatro alla Scala in Milan where she appeared in Carmen (Mercedes) and Andrea Chénier (Bersi), conducted by Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. At La Scala she also appeared in the leading role in the world premiere staging of Orfeo by Luigi Rossi.

She mostly performed in Italian theatres, opera houses and festivals:

She sang in various operas in other countries:

Jovanović sung leading role in the first performance of Carmen in the Middle -East, in Abu Dhabi. She also sang at The Royal Opera de Vallonie(Liege), L'Opera de Nice, L`Opera de Toulon, L`Opera de Bordeaux, Teatro Cervantes (Malaga), Teatro della Maestranza (Siviglia), Teatro Victoria Eugenia (San Sebastian), Teatro Vittorio Emanuele (Messina),[7] Bedzih Smetana Hall (Prag), Opera Budapest, Opera Odessa (Ukraina), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Dubrovnik Samer Festival, Opera Ljubljana i Opera Maribor (Slovenia), Thessaloniki, Brno, Beijing...

At Figeras (Spain) she participated first world performance fragment of the opera Être Dieu with libretto of Salvador Dalí.[8] She has performed two recitals at Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C)[9] as well as a performance at Carnegie Hall (New York).[10]

Political career

Jovanović was given the twelfth position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[11] She is not herself a member of the party but ran as an aligned non-partisan candidate.[12] The list won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 parliamentary mandates, and Jovanović was sworn in as a legislator on 3 June 2016. During the 2016–20 assembly, she was a member of the parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the culture and information committee; the leader of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie (where Serbia has associate member status); and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Azerbaijan, Australia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Uganda, and the United States of America.[13]

She received the twenty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 election[14] and was elected to a second term when the list won another landslide majority with 188 mandates. She continues to serve on the diaspora and culture committees and lead Serbia's delegation to the Francophonie. She is also now the leader of Serbia's friendship group with France and a member of the friendship groups with Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[15]

Awards

In 2021, she was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star.[16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.narodnopozoriste.co.rs/jovanovi%C4%87-jadranka Jadranka Jovanović
  2. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8-t2RvJWA Carmen with José Carreras
  3. http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1995/luglio/03/Frizzi_conte_all_operetta_vinto_co_0_9507033138.shtml Teatro Bellini Catania
  4. http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLCIADRI.HTM Teatro Liceo Barcelona
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20110810135826/http://www.operajaponica.org/archivesj/performances/fujiwaraprodspast.htm Carmen - Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Theater
  6. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-We4AYWq4 Open Air Festival Aida
  7. http://www.filarmonicalaudamo.it/Inglese/concert_season06-07/17-18-19nov06.htm Mozzart Requiem - Teatro Vittorio Emanuele
  8. http://www.vilaweb.cat/ep/ultima-hora/1282000/20050510/figueres-estrena-dema-musica-lopera-etre-dieu-salvador-dali.html Etre Dieu Salvador Dali
  9. http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=79330&source_type=B Kennedy Center Recital
  10. http://www.carnegiehall.org/m/event.aspx?id=4294986628 Postponed: Jadranka Jovanovic, Mezzo-Soprano Nikola Rackov, Piano
  11. http://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2016-izborne-liste.php Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ)
  12. http://www.otvoreniparlament.rs/poslanik/8001 JADRANKA JOVANOVIĆ
  13. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/JADRANKA_JOVANOVIC.894.488.html JADRANKA MA JOVANOVIC
  14. https://www.danas.rs/politika/izbori-2020/ko-je-sve-na-listi-sns-za-republicke-poslanike/ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?"
  15. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/JADRANKA_JOVANOVIC.894.488.html JADRANKA MA JOVANOVIC
  16. Web site: Председник Вучић уручио одликовања поводом Дана државности Републике Србије. 2021-02-24. Председник Републике Србије.

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