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.

KATARINA  GOJKOVIC

She was born in Chicago on 21st December, 1967. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She received the scholarship from the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in the period 1987- 1990. Since 1997 she has the status of a freelance artist. She accomplished the roles in the following performances: The Dybbuk (directing: Eduard Miller), Proletarian Farce (directing: Egon Savin), Theatrical Illusions (directing: Slobodan Unkovski), Merry Wives of Windsor (directing: Branko Pleša), Florentine Hat (directing: Ljubomir Draškic), Nijinsky (directing: Irfan Mensur), Merchants (“Tergovci”) (directing: Vida Ognjenovic), Misanthrope (directing Dejan Mijac), Belgrade Trilogy (directing: Goran Markovic), Dear Daddy (directing: Boris Liješevic), Chicago (directing: Kokan Mladenovic). She realized the roles in the films: The Battle of Kosovo, Tell Me Why You Left Me and The White Suit.

JORDI ROIG, costume designer

Born in 1960 in Spanish town Lleida. Under the influence of his father, he was active in applied arts from his early childhood. In 1976 he moves to Barcelona, where he studies set design and marionette art at the Institut del Teatre, as well as to become a dancer. After his studies he started his career as a dancer, and as a set and costume designer. He ended his dancing career in 1987, to devote fully to designing. In the same year he was invited to exhibit his works at the IV Biennial.

Between 1987 and 1991 he created some very impressive set designs for the Ballet Lirico Nacional, which was under the artistic direction of Maya Plisetskaya, then for Lola Greco and for Lanònima Imperial. For the Stuttgart Ballet he made set designs for «Empty Place» (1992), «Los Noces» (1994) and «Elle e(s)t moi» (1999); for the Vienna State Opera Ballet «La Chambre» (1994), «Sacre» and Rudolf Nureyev’s «The Swan Lake» (1996), «Thin Air» and «All is Waltz» (1997), «Wolfgang Amadé» and «The Seven Last Word » (1998), as well as for « The Bayadere » (1999); for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo «Watching Waters» (1994); and for the Ballet of the German Opera from Berlin «...shades of desire...» and for «Last Blues» (1998).

The costume designer Jordi Roig created costumes for many performances, among which for the Stuttgart Ballet, for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, for dances of the New Year’s concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as for the ballets of Vladimir Malakhov («La Spectre de la Rose», the «Narcisse» and the «Louis XIV»). His works include «Verdi–Ballet: The Masquerade» at the Vienna State Opera, then the «Quintet» of Heinz Spoerli in Zuerich and «The Bayadere» of Berlin Lindenoper.

Ivana Vujic, director and Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, is one of the most controversial and the most successful directors of the contemporary Serbian theatre. Always on the verge of extravagance, in a permanent search of modernness, and always being alert to the world trends, this director has become on Belgrade stages a synonym of theatre modernness, a new and unconventional dramatic expression. Ivana Vujic is the founder of BETON HALA THEATRE and she has staged over 60 performances of many authors: Shakespeare, Webster, Sartre, Jeunet, Becket, Ionesco, Brecht, Euripides, Wilde, Schimmelpfenig, and Coltes. She directed in Slovenia, Germany and Italy. 

IVAN BOSILJCIC 

He was born on 15th January, 1979. He graduated in the class of Professor Vida Ognjenovic from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2001. He had important and main roles in the theatrical performances: The Twelfth Night (Award for the best young actor at the Joakim Vujic Gathering), Hamlet, Mileva Einstein and The Speed of Darkness. Ivan Bosiljcic also played in the following musicals: Brilliantine, Kiss Me Kate, The Gypsy Camp Disappears in the Skies, A Chorus Line and Chicago. He also played in the films: Spleen, Fear of Flying, Monet and On the Beautiful Blue Danube.

Goran Strgar, tenor, graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad at General Music Pedagogies Department in 2004 and a year later at the Department for solo singing in the class of Professor Vera Kovac-Vitkai. He won a master’s degree at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, playing a role of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Since the 2004/2005 season, he has appeared on the stage as a soloist of the Serbian National Theatre. Up till now he has realized numerous roles: Arturo and Normano in Donizetti’s opera Lucia of Lammermoor, Belini’s Norma, Flavio, a drunk peasant in Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera Katarina Ismailova, Vasil in Johan Strauss’s opera Apple, Boni in Kalman’s opera Princess of Chardash, Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Alfred in Verdi’s La Traviata. Since 2009/2010 season, he has been a member of Madlenianum Theatre and Opera where he made his debut in the role of Ligurio in Ivan Jevtic’s Mandragola. He is a winner of a great number of awards and recognitions. He is a soloist of the Opera in Novi Sad and of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre in Zemun and also occupies himself with pedagogical work at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

GEROSLAV ZARIC 

He was born at  Milutovac on 9th May, 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1976. He has been a member of ULUPUDUS (Association of the Artists of Applied Arts of Serbia) since 1976, and there since he has been in the status of a freelance artist. He was granted a distinguished artist status in 1996. He is a full-time professor of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He is active in painting and set design. He is one of the founders of the groups Act and New Sensitivity. He is the author of over two hundred set designs for theatrical productions. He collaborated with the most distinguished Serbian theatre directors, as well as with many others from the ex-Yugoslav region. He also realized set design productions on numerous festivals: BELEF, Budva City Theatre and Ohrid Summer Festival.

Geroslav Zaric created many set designs for television, in dramatic and series shows. As designer and graphic artist, he took part in numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad, on May Salon, October Salon, Prague Quadrennial... He was awarded some fifty awards, among which seven Sterija Awards. Some of the important performances for which Geroslav Zaric created set designs were: Saint George Kills the Dragon, Kir Janja, Liar and Superliar, Muster Station, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rabies, A Stuck-Up Woman, Yegor’s Path ... Geroslav Zaric already worked for Madlenianum, in the performance Tesla.

FABIO ARMILIATO  

Fabio Armiliato is one of the most important tenors on the international opera scene, acclaimed for his voice, his high register and connate musicality, further his dramatic performances and the charisma which defines his characters.

Mr. Armiliato was born in Genoa where he graduated at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatoire. His debut in Simon Boccanegra of Verdi made an early and quick beginning to his career quickly and took him to take on the most important roles in several famous theatre''''''''s in the world, as the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, L’Opéra de Paris, the San Francisco Opera House, Teatro Real in Madrid and the Wiener Staatsoper.

As Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca, he is noted for his impassioned and exciting interpretation with which he had great success at the Arena of Verona, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Fenice of Venice and during a very important Japanese tour with the Opera of Rome. Cavaradossi is the role of his return at La Scala, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and to the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in London, under Antonio Pappano''''s baton.

Among several successes during these last seasons, mostly important is his debut in La forza del destino at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, La Fanciulla del West in Rome (notable his encore of Ch’ella mi creda during the 1st performance) and Tosca at Caracalla, where he celebrates 20 years from his debut in Caracalla.

Between, 2009-2010 he started with Turandot, at the completely re-built Petruzzelli-Theatre in Bari. He performed also with enormous success and unanimous ovation the role of Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at the Opernhaus in Zürich. Then, he was in the main male character in a new production of La Fanciulla del West, at Puccini Festival, for the 100th anniversary of this opera together with Daniela Dessì.

The 2011 season began with the expected and successful debut in Otello at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liége. After this, he received the 1st Tito Schipa International Award on August 3rd in Ostuni as well as the honorary citizenship of Recanati, in the name of Beniamino Gigli.

Fabio Armiliato made a recent debut in film with a featured role opposite Woody Allen in the director’s latest movie, “To Rome with Love”, which was released in 2012 for which Armiliato garnered raves for his interpretation.