One of the greatest operatic baritones of our town, Željko Lučić will soon perform in Sarajevo, announced the foundation of Music, that has organised a very successful conert of Denyce Graves in October last year.
Lučić will perform on 19 April in National Theatre, together with BiH opera singers Aida Čorbadžić, Ivan Šarić and Amir Saračević and the Opera Choir of National Theatre and Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra. Ivo Lipanović will be the conductor.
Željko Lučić was in 1968 in Zernjanin and who had an active international career since 1993. He was a member of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad from 1993–1998 and at the Frankfurt Opera from 1998-2008. He is particularly well known for his performances in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi; having portrayed a total of 23 leading roles from the great composer’s works.
Lučić made his professional opera debut in April 1993 as Silvio in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. He was soon seen at that theatre as Belcore in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Germont in Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata, Lionel in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans, Valentin in Charles Gounod’s Faust and the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
In 2006 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Barnaba in Amilcare Ponchielli’s La Gioconda with Violeta Urmana in the title role and Bertrand de Billy conducting. He has since returned to that house as Verdi’s Germont, Michele in Puccini’s Il tabarro, and in the title roles of Verdi’s Macbeth and Verdi’s Rigoletto. He was scheduled to return to the Met for the 2010-11 season as Rigoletto and the Count di Luna.
