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.

NEBOJSA BRADIC

He graduated from the Faculty of Theatrical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Borjana Prodanovic, with the performance A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Since 1981 till 1996 he served as the director, artistic director and manager of Kruševac Theatre. He came to Belgrade in 1996, to assume the management of the theatre Atelje 212, where he remained for nine months only, but long enough to show his capabilities, thanks to which the Krusevac Theatre joined the circle of the leading Yugoslav theatres. He created the repertoire characteristic of modern European theatres, bringing into this theatre a spirit of contemporary management and started the processes that would be evident not only in this theatre, but in the whole theatrical life of Belgrade as well.

He was the manager of the National Theatre in Belgrade till 1999. Since December 2000 he has become the manager of the Belgrade Drama Theatre. He directed about 60 performances in many Serbian, but also in many Bosnian and Croatian theatres, with a special affinity for contemporary domestic literature and dramatization (The Damned Yard, Death and the Dervish, The Golden Fleece, Roots), and for the theatre in open spaces. He is the winner of several most significant domestic theatrical awards – nine awards for the best directing at the “Joakim Vujic Gathering” in Kragujevac, he was the first winner of the prize Nikola Peca Petrovic for the best theatre manager. He was also awarded the Sterija Award for the best dramatization and directing. He also deals with theatrology and writes essays. He published the book of dramatizations of the novels The Damned Yard and Death and the Dervish. Nebojša Bradic is a member of many art associations and was a member of many juries in various cultural manifestations.

Theatre reviewers and –  even more important – actors, set designers and  composers value him as a high expert in theatrical art, as a director who understands his associates and knows exactly what he can expect from his team and how to work with each individual in specific moments of the work on a performance. One of his main qualities is a capacity to direct his own energy and the energy of his associates in the direction that will bring results. 

NATASA MARKOVIC 

She graduated acting in the class of Professor Branislav Micunovic at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1998, by the performance The Murderer, directed by  Anja Suša at the Belgrade Drama Theatre. She is one of the founders of the theatrical group Torpedo. Among other things, she plays in the performances Shopping and Fucking, directed by Iva Miloševic, at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Some Girls, directed by Gorcin Stojanovic, at the Belgrade Drama Theatre, Claus and Erica, directed by Nebojša Bradic, and Runner, directed by Stevan Bodroža at the Small Theatre Dusko Radovic. She had parts in the films Ringeraja and Seven and A Half, and also played in the television series Foxes and Elevator.

MARKO PACE 

He was born in Milan. He completed his studies in violoncello (R. Filippini), piano (L. Taskera) and composition (G. Manzoni and A. Corgi) at the Conservatory „Giuseppe Verdi“ in Milan. Then he studied conducting, first with Franco Ferarra, and then in Vienna with Carl Estereicher. He also perfected his skills with M. Acmon, F. Nagy, G. Bertini and L. Bernstein. In 1983 he won the prize of music reviewers, Turin Soloists. He debuted in Italy as the conductor of the Orchestra Saint Cecilia  in Rome; thereafter he conducted the Orchestra of Varnja, Dublin Symphonic Orchestra, Radio Bucharest Orchestra, Debrecin Symphonic Orchestra (Hungary), Chamber Orchestra in Prague, Opera Orchestra of Olomouc, the Orchestra of the State Opera in Prague, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Arpegione Orchestra (Austria), the Orchestra of Sofia Opera (Bulgaria), the Orchestra of Radio Belgrade and the Orchestra of Novi Sad Opera (Serbia). In the season 1999/2000 he was a full-time conductor of the State Opera in Prague. In the recent seasons he had several tours in South Korea and South America, and performed numerous symphonic concerts all over Europe, especially in Denmark and  Germany. He has recently become a member of the association „Piosenkarze“ and has been engaged in formation of a new orchestra that officially debuted in September 2007. 

LJUBOMIR POPOVIC 

He was born in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Music Art, in the class of Biserka Cvejic. In the year 2002 he became a member of the Operatic Studio of the National Theatre in Belgrade, and since November 2006 he has been a full-time member of the Opera of the National Theatre. At the stage of the National Theatre he realized a number of roles in the operas by Strauss, Puccini, Mozart, Rossini and Tchaikovsky. Ljubomir Popovic performed at the stage of Madlenianum in the opera The Tales of Hoffmann.