Ivo Parac
Musiche Pascoliane (selection) / text: Giovanni Pascoli
Orphan ( Orphan )
Fides ( Faith )
Blessing
Faraway ( Distant )
Con gli angioli ( With angels )
La baia tranquilla ( The Quiet Bay )
Johannes Brahms
Von ewiger Liebe ( Eternal love ), op. 43, no. 1 / text: AH Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Feldeinsamkeit ( Osama in the field ), op. 86, no. 2 / text: Hermann Allmers
Meine Liebe ist Grün ( My love is green ), op. 63, no. 5 / text: Felix Schumann
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier / libretto: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Wie Du warst! Wie Du bist! ( How were you! How are you! ), Octavian's aria from Act 1
Mir ist, die Ehrewiderfahren ( It is my honor ), duet between Octavian and Sophie from Act 2
Jules Massenet
Werther / libretto: Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet, Georges Hartmann
Werther! Qui m'aurait dit... Ces lettres! ( Werther! Who would have told me... These letters! ), aria Charlotte (Scene with the letters) from Act 3
Georges Bizet
Carmen / libretto: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy
Habanera L'amour est un oiseau rebelle ( Love is a rebellious bird ), aria Carmen from Act 1
Séguedille Près des remparts de Séville ( Near the walls of Seville ), aria Carmen from Act 1
Giacomo Puccini
La Rondine / libretto: Giuseppe Adami
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta potè indovinar? ( Who could have guessed Doretta's beautiful dream? ), Magda's aria from Act 1
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème / libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Quando me'n vo ( When I go ), Musette's aria (Musette's waltz) from Act 2
Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi / libretto: Giovacchino Forzano
O mio babbino caro ( Oh, my dear father ), Laurette's aria
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida / libretto: AntonioGhislanzoni
Ohimè! Morir mi sento! ( Alas! I feel myself dying! ), Amneris' monologue (The Trial Scene) from Act 4
Jacob Gotovac
Milo Gojsalić / libretto: Danko Angjelinović
Ode to the Land , Mile's aria from Act 1
After graduating in singing from the Academy of Music in Zagreb, Croatian mezzo-soprano Jelena Kordić continued her artistic training at the Semperoper Dresden Opera Studio, where she performed a number of notable lyrical roles. After that, she worked for six years in the ensemble of the Mannheim National Theatre, where she particularly distinguished herself with roles such as Carmen, Charlotte, Octavian, Adalgisa, Komponist, Fricka and Preziosilla. Her international career includes performances at La Monnaie in Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Oper Köln, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, UNAM in Mexico City, Daegu Opera Festival in South Korea, Taichung National Theater in Taiwan… She collaborated with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra singing Dom in Gotovac's opera Ero s onoga svijeta. In recent years, Jelena has increasingly established herself as a singer of the great Wagnerian and Verdian repertoire, performing roles such as Fricka, Amneris, and Eboli, while her upcoming repertoire includes Wagner's Venus.
As a pianist and vocal coach, Laurent Philippe maintains an active collaboration with numerous prominent opera artists. He has been a faculty member at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia for nineteen years, and as a guest vocal coach has collaborated with numerous opera houses worldwide, including Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Michigan Opera Theatre, Florentine Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Opera San José, Seattle Opera, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Princeton Festival.
