STANKO JOVANOVIC, conductor, born in 1968 in Belgrade. He studied conducting at the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade and in 1992 graduated in the class of professor Jovan Sajnovic. In 1993 he became a permanent honorary conductor of the Orchestra of the Radio and Television of Serbia. Beside the independent concerts with the RTS orchestra, he also assists to: Vassily Sinayski in preparations of IX Symphony by L. v. Beethoven; Yuri Aliev in the work on Debussy’s The Sea; Christian Mandeal in Verdi’s Requiem and to his professor Jovan Sajnovic in Mozart’s Requiem and Four last songs by R. Strauss. With the Yugoslav Army orchestra and with the Belgrade Philharmonic he performs VIII Symphony by L. v. Beethoven and Don Juan by R. Strauss. During a one-year work with the Ballet of the National Theatre he conducts Delibes' Coppelia and works on preparations of the Swan Lake by P. I. Tchaikovsky's. Since 1996 he has been engaged as a full-time conductor of the orchestra of the RTS, and with them he realized a number of very well received concerts, archived records of rarely performed works, and many works of Yugoslav and Serbian composers. With the RTS he recorded two CDs: Eight centuries of Hilandar and Vivaldi - Bach Concerts for violin and piano with the soloists of Simonuti Trio. At the guest performances in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia (Maribor Philharmonic) and Canada the concerts that can be especially singled out are those with the London Chamber Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the traditional New Year’s concert in Milan, and from the works realized at those guest performances he achieved a special success in conducting Liturgy by S. Rachmaninov and Brahm’s III Symphony. Since August 1999 he has been engaged as the chief conductor of the Philharmonic of the young Borislav Pascan. In 2001 he conducted the premiere of the opera „The Two Widows“ by Bedrich Smetana at Madlenianum Opera and Theatre. Out of the latest guest performances the two can be highlighted: the one with the orchestra of the Toronto Academy (in 2005) and the other with the Chamber Orchestra from Baden (Zurich, in 2006). Stanko Jovanovic is an artist of a wide spectrum and is active in all musical genres (jazz, rock, folk music). He accomplished a great success on large audio festival in Monte Carlo, where he won a III prize for the record of the jazz opera Cacao Tree (in 1996). On the latest piano CD (published in January 2006 in the edition of PGP RTS) he presented himself as a splendid and authentic performer of Russian, Hungarian and Romanian ballads.

Awards:
- October Student Award
- RTS Musical Production Award
- Radio Belgrade Award
- RTS Award
- United Nations Award for the Balkans
- International Red Cross Award (for humanitarian work)
- Yugoslav Red Cross Award (for humanitarian work)
- BEMUS Award (in 1999) for interpretation (as the conductor of the Philharmonic of young „Borislav  Pascan“)
- BEMUS Award (in 2000) for the best BEMUS concert (the Philharmonic of the young „Borislav Pascan“) 

SRDJAN TIMAROV 

He was born in Belgrade on 7th August, 1976. He graduated in acting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He had his acting debut at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. He has been a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade since April, 2001. He plays in the performances of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, The Serbian National Theatre, the theatre Atelje 212 and Belgrade Drama Theatre. His most significant roles in the theatre are: Measure for Measure, Spawn of Carps, Faith and Treason, Bereaved Family (all at the Serbian National Theatre), Supermarket, The Merchant of Venice, and Pavilions (in the Yugoslav Drama Theatre). He received the following prizes: Jovan Sterija Popovic, in 2001, for the role in the performance Pavilions, Ardalion in Užice, in 1999 and in 2006, as well as the Award Predrag Tomanovic of the Serbian National Theatre for the role in the performance Measure for Measure.

Sofija Pizurica, - soprano, finished basic and post-gradual studies from The Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Professor Biserka Cvejic. She is a winner of a number of awards and recognitions. She was a fellowship holder of CEE Musikteater, the prestigious cultural institution from Vienna which supports specialized training of the most promising young artists of Central and Eastern Europe. She made her debut being still a student in 2001 with the role of Musset at the scene of the National Theatre in Belgrade. After that, other roles followed: Pamina and Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Adina in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Musseta in Puccini’s Bohemians, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Oscar in Verdi’s Masked Ball, Antonia and Gulietta in Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. Micaela in Bizet’s opera Carmen, Countess in Mozart,s The Marriage of Figaro, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Sophie in Jules Massenet’s Werther, Celina in Mozart’s Don Juan. Since 2002 she has been a permanent participant of Madlenianum stage production.

Snezana Savcic Sekulic, soprano, who graduated and won a master’s degree from The Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Professor Radmila Smiljanic. She is a winner of numerous and very significant awards and acknowledgements. As a fellowship holder of CEE Musiktheater from Vienna (2004-2007), she appeared in concerts and opera performances, and received a specialized training with great names of opera art and, as the crown of it all, the recent participation in a concert of Vienna Opera House, followed. She is a soloist of the Opera of The National Theatre in Belgrade. Being still a student, she made her debut on the scene on the scene od The National Opera in the role of Gilda after which, numerous roles in operas such as The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Puccini’s Bohemians and Gianni Schicchi, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann and Ivan Jevtic’s Mandragola, followed on the scene of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre . She realized the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia of Lammermoor. In addition to opera singing, she also cherishes the tradition of concert singing. She has appeared in this country and all over Europe. She did recordings for Mandala-Harmonia Mundi in Paris, RTS, RTRS, and RTCG. She is engaged in pedagogical work

Sasa Stulic - tenor, graduated from the Academy of Art, Novi Sad in the class of Professor Biserka Cvejic. He is a winner of a number of awards and recognitions, His debut at the opera scene was in 1995 in Mozart’s opera A Simple Deception in order to become a full-time soloist of the Opera of The Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Since then up till nowadays, he realized a great number of roles in Mozart’s operas (Cosi fan tutte, Don Juan), Rossini’s (The Barber of Seville, Signor Briskin, Cinderella, The Italian Girl in Algiers), Donizetti’s (The Elixir of Love, Lucia of Lammermoor), Verdi’s (Rigoletto, La Traviata), Rachmaninov’s (Aleko), Strauss’s (The Bat), Puccini’s (Madame Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi, Bohemians). Since 2000, he has been a member of Madlenianum Chamber Opera in Zemun where he realized a series of roles in Giachomo Rossini’s, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s, Bedzih Smetana’s and Carl Orff’s operas. He realized an outstanding performance in the role of Alfred (La Traviata) in 2006 in St Petersburg Opera. In addition to the opera engagement, he also appears in solo concerts as well as with orchestras and oratorios by Bach, Rossini, Mozart and Gounod. He gave a great number of concerts in this country and also abroad.

Sanja Kerkez, soprano, she entered the Music Academy in Sarajevo in the class of professor Branka Kurpijel. During two year studies she became a member of Sarajevo Opera Theatre and then she moved to Belgrade where she graduated from The Music Academy in the class of professor Biserka Cvejic. During the studies she won numerous awards in federal vocal competitions. After completing her studies she signed on with Belgrade Opera in the role of Mozart’s opera Theatre Director. Her repertoire includes numerous roles such as Gilda in Rigoletto and Violetta in La Traviata by Giusepe Verdi, Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Mimi in Bohemians by Puccini, Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia of Lammermoor, Anna in Ana Bolena, Adina in The Elixir of Love, Michaela in Bizet’s Carmen, Donna Ana in Mozart’s Don Juan, Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Adel in Strauss’s Rosalinda and others. Since 2002, she has been working with Oliver Miljakovic. She had guest performances in the countries all over Europe.

It is our great pleasure to greet in Madlenianum for the first time such a significant artist as Mrs. Sanja Kerkez. Welcome to the family of stars who appear on the stage of Madlenianum.

Sanja Domazet, Smederevo, graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. She is a famous playwright (Stuffed Zucchini, Lead Wings), but she is also active as a literature and theatre reviewer in the daily newspaper Danas (Today). Beside the drama Frida Kahlo, Sanja Domazet also finished the drama Coco about the most famous creator of 20th century, as well as the novel Who is crying, which was shortlisted for the NIN Award for the novel of the year 2005. Sanja Domazet is predominantly a lyrical author in whose works intermingle  human destinies, with their reflections and preoccupations. A thin edge between the two worlds: the interior one, which permanently seeks for satisfaction, and the exterior one, which disturbs such satisfaction, is a place of wrangling, struggling, success and destruction of the literary heroes of Sanja Domazet. 

Ronald Harwood

He was born to a Jewish family in Cape Town in  South Africa in 1934. He came to London in 1951, and after finishing the studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; he joined the “Shakespeare Company” of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great actor-managers in the British theatre in the fifties. Moreover, from 1953 to 1958, Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. On basis of these experiences, he would later write the famous drama “The Dresser” and a biography  of Sir Donald Wolfit, “His life and work in the Unfashionable Theatre”.

In 1960, Ronald Harwood started a new career as a writer and a playwright and was quite prolific, penning novels and plays. One of the recurring themes in Harwood's work is his fascination for the stage. The plays like “The Dresser”, “After the Lions” (about Sarah Bernhardt), “Taking Sides” (on investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler, the chief conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra), “Quartet” (about ageing opera singers), and his non-fiction book “All the World's a Stage”, a general history of theatre, all speak of his permanent and obsessive attachment to the “the call of the footlights”. 
Having become world famous as the playwright, and next to the Nobel winner, Pinter, the most famous British contemporary dramatist, Harwood turned to script writing. Especially notable is his cooperation with the famous director Roman Polanski, for whom he wrote two scripts for the films “The Pianist” (Academy Award for the best revised script) and Oliver Twist. Ronald Harwood’s dramas are presently played in over twenty countries of the world, and the drama “Quartet” in six world languages. Next to being active as the writer, Harwood was also active as the President of International PEN Center (1993-1997). Since this year, Ronald Harwood has become a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.

RENATO ZANELLA

Since 2005, Renato Zanella has been  a freelance choreographer. 
He created choreographies for over eighty ballets for the largest art houses: Stuttgart Ballet, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Introdans, the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Istanbul State Ballet, the Hungarian National Ballet, the Ballet du Rhin, Vereinigte Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach, the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the City Theatre in Baden, the Ballet of the city of Lima, Portugal National Ballet and the Berlin Staats Opera Ballet. 
He created solos for Carla Fracci, Anastasia Volotchkova, Simona Noja, Shoko Nakamura, Vladimir Malakhov, Manuel Legris and his group, Roberto Bolle and Giuseppe Picone.
For the Vienna State Opera he created ballet parts in operas. He also choreographed ballet parts of the productions of operas in: Deutsche Oper Berlin, New Opera from Vienna, Lisbon Opera, Teatro Scala from Milan, Mariinski Theatre from St. Petersburg, at the festival in Bregenz  and in London´s Royal Opera House. 
Renato Zanella started in 2000 the dance project “Off ballet special” in cooperation with the society for disabled persons “Ich bin O. K.”, where he has produced full-length performances ever since. 
In 1995 and 1999 Zanella was a member of the jury for the „Prix de Lausanne“. He also took part in the work of the jury for the „Concours International de Danse de Paris“(in 1998), for the „Concours International de Chorégraphie Classique“ in Paris (in 1999), the „International Ballet Competition of Luxemburg“ and the „Choreographen-Wettbewerb“ in Hannover. In 2000 he appeared at the Monaco Dances Forum, and in 2005 at the Choreography and Dance Competition in Helsinki. 
In 1995 he was presented with the „Danza & Danza“ award, as  the best Italian choreographer abroad. In 2000 he got the prize „Gino Tani“, in 2001 he received the "Jakob Prandtauer" prize from the city of St. Pölten, and in the same year he was honoured with the Austrian Special Distinction for Arts and Sciences.

Nenad Nenic, baritone, graduated from The Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Professor Aleksandra Duda Ivanovic. He entered post-diploma studies in the class of Professor Katicaa Nikolic and proceeded with Professor Aneta Ilic. He attended courses with Carlo Ventura, Maestro of Rome opera and with the famous English soprano Pauline Tinsley. In the Opera of The National Theatre in Belgrade, he played the role of Papagena (The Magic Flute), Dandini (Cinderella), Peter (Hansel and Gretel) and Shaunard (Bohemians). In Madlenianum opera he realized the roles of Gullelmo (Cosi fan tutte), the King and the man with a mule (Wise Woman), Luther, Crespel and Schlemil (The Tales of Hoffmann), Marquis (La Traviata) as well as Sharples (Madame Butterfly). In corporation with Croatian artists in opera Angelique, he realized the role of Boniface. He sang the solo parts in Hayden’s World Creation and Dvorzak’s Requiem in Purple Fire by John Gibson at Hauard Gilman scene at the Opera in Brooklyn, within the prestigious BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) festival.