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2024.

Kristina Kolar, soprano
Filip Fak, piano

PROGRAMME

Ivan Matetić Ronjgov
My country
Lullaby

Blagoje Bersa
The Slave Girl,
op. 47
Oh my god, you have a good time,
op. 45

Dora Pejačević
The First Violets
, op. No. 23, no. 3
I believe, dear
, op. 30, no. 3

Ivan pl. Zajc
The night is quiet
Evening song

Josip Hatze
An Evening at the School
Suzi

Ivo Maček
Intermezzo, for piano

Giacomo Puccini
And these
E l'uccellino
Sole e amore
Terra e mare
Salve Regina
Sogno d'or
Mentì al'avviso
Morire?

Blagoje Bersa
Notturno
, Op. 38, for piano

Giacomo Puccini
Un bel dì, vedremo
, the aria Cio-Cio-San from the opera Madama Butterfly
In quelle trine morbide, the aria by Manon from the opera Manon Lescaut
Vissi d'arte, the aria by Floria Tosca from the opera Tosca

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The soprano Kristina Kolar has been employed at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka. She has performed in numerous roles in Croatia and abroad, including: Turandot (Turandot), Carmen (Carmen), Aida (Aida), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Tosca (Tosca), Manon Lescaut (Manon), La Gioconda (Laura), Andrea Chenier (Maddalena), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Nabucco (Abigaille, Fenena), The Bat (Rosalinde, Prince Orlovsky), Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza, Lola), Adrianna Lecovreur (Principessa), La forza del destino (Preziosilla), Hamlet (Gertrude), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), Norma (Norma), Nikola Šubić Zrinjski (Eva), Porin (Irmengarda), Liza (The Queen of Spades)... She regularly performs abroad (Japan, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Poland) and performs as a soloist. She has won a dozen prestigious awards in Croatia, and is especially proud of the Milko Trnina Award for exceptional artistic achievements for the role of Santuzza in the play Cavalleria rusticana performed at the Rijeka Summer Nights (2011/2012) and the annual Marijana Radev Award of the Croatian National Theatre Zagreb for the best role in the season - Manon Lescaut (2017) and Tosca (2022) in the operas of the same name.

Pianist and composer Filip Fak (Rijeka, 1983) is an associate professor at the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb, director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and president of the Croatian Society of Music Artists. He continued his studies at the Schola Cantorum in Paris in the master class of Eugen Indjić, upon completion of which he obtained diploma with the highest grades. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Croatia, throughout Europe, and in the USA, Mexico and China. He has given a number of notable recitals and chamber performances. He has won a number of awards, including the Milka Trnina Professional Award for the best annual musical achievement in 2018. He is also engaged in composing, with an emphasis on works for piano for smaller chamber ensembles.

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