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INTRODUCTION
Miloš Bulajić was a member of the young ensemble at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival. He was also part of Accademia Rossiniana, led by M° Alberto Zedda. In a conversation with Alice Lechner, Milos talks about his experience at Accademia Rossiniana, his debut in the role of Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, his pianist career and last but not least, about his passion for aeroplanes.
BIOGRAPHY
Miloš Bulajić was born in Bonn/Germany to a family with Serbian origins. He started playing the piano at age 7, later studied as a piano soloist first at the Berlin conservatory UDK and later parallel to his singing studies in Würzburg graduating with a concert diploma. He has studied singing with the late Leandra Overmann in Würzburg aswell as with Helene Schneiderman and Daniela Sindram. Since 2017 he is working on his vocal development with KS. Deborah Polaski in her studio in Berlin. He was a member of the young ensemble (opera studio) at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin led by Mo. Barenboim for two seasons where he sung in over 115 main stage performances in a wide repertoire including Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, Geharnischter and Priest in the Magic Flute, Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser, Conte di Lerma and Araldo in Don Carlo and the Tenor solo in Petite Messe Solennelle. He made his debuts at the Salzburg Festival in 2014 being part of the „young singers project“ where he sung Don Ramiro and Belmonte in studio productions and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, being part of the prestigious Accademia Rossiniana led by M. Alberto Zedda at that time, who invited him to sing the role of Conte di Libenskof in Viaggio a Reims. Further guest contracts brought him with Tonio in La fille du Régiment to Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater Biel/Solothurn in Switzerland and to the Royal Operahouse Covent Garden in London to cover the same role, Lindoro in Italiana in Algeri to Nationaltheater Weimar (directed by Tobias Kratzer) and to Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Libenskof in Viaggio a Reims to Opera Graz, Italian Singer in Rosenkavalier to Staatstheater Schwerin, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola to the opera houses of Braunschweig, Linz, Munich, Magdeburg, Osnabrück and Sofia National Opera, Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia to Innsbruck, Magdeburg, Meiningen and Teatro Menotti di Spoleto, Ernesto in Don Pasquale to the Austrian Festival castle Kirchstetten, Nadir in Pearlfishers and Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte to Theater Pforzheim, Don Ottavio to Theater Regensburg, Alfred in Fledermaus to Theater Freiburg, Paolino in Matrimonio Segreto to the National Opera Amsterdam, 4th Jew in Salome with Mo. Gergiev at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and with the Tenor solo in a staged production of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle on a tour to the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Bregenz Festival as well as to the Grand Theatre de Luxemburg, Erfurt, Berlin, Perpignan, Nimes and Antibes. Recently he made his debut in the role of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Clermont-Ferrand, Tebaldo in Capuleti e Montecchi in Biel/Bienne, Tamino in Magic flute at Staatstheater Cottbus, sung again Lindoro in Italiana in Algeri in Kaiserslautern, Alfred in Fledermaus at the French opera houses in Rennes, Avignon, Toulon, Nantes and Angers, Lindoro in Berlin with Eroica - orchestra and Petite Messe Solennelle at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Ernesto in Don Pasquale at Teatro Comunale di Sassari in Italy and his debut in Vienna at Theater an der Wien in Weinberger Opera Schwanda the bagpiper (directed by Tobias Kratzer). He worked with the conductors Alessandro De Marchi, Patrick Lange, Alberto Zedda, Valery Gergiev, Simone Young, Massimo Zanetti, Antonello Allemandi, Daniele Squeo, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Eun Sun Kim, Stefan Soltesz, Theodor Guschlbauer, Karl Heinz Steffens, Benjamin Bayl, Srba Dinić, Daniel Inbal, Alexander Soddy, Oksana Lyniv, Joana Mallwitz, Michael Hofstetter, Domingo Hindoyan and stage directors Andrea Moses, Hans Neuenfels, Jürgen Flimm, Calixto Bieito, Andreas Homoki, Tobias Kratzer, Bernd Mottl, Andreas Bäsler, Brigitte Fassbänder, Anette Leistenschneider, Dominik Wilgenbus, Hans Hollmann and Nicola Hümpel (Nico and the Navigators). His concert and oratorio repertoire which he performed with orchestras such as the Danish Radio-Symphony-Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Concert Royal Cologne brought him with Bach's St. Matthews Passion and Christmas oratorio to the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and the Cathedral in Aachen, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang to Westminster Hall in London, Rossini's Stabat Mater to Neubrandenburg, Freiberg, London and the Teatre Principal de Palma de Mallorca, Rossini Messe di Gloria to Cottbus and Hildesheim, Puccinis Messe di Gloria to Saffron Walden Hall in Essex/UK, Bruckners Te Deum to Fulda, Carmina Burana to Freiberg, the Mozart Requiem to Bamberg, Wiesbaden and Belgrade and Mendelssohn's Elijah to Berlin. Still active as a pianist, he appears mainly with chamber music like the Beethoven Duo Sonatas for Violin and Piano as well as some Lied repertoire by Brahms, Schubert and Mozart as an accompanist like recently at the LIFE Victoria de los Angeles Liedfestival in Barcelona or at „Wohntonfestival“ in Osnabrück.
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Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.
Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.
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