Dragana Branislava Radaković, MMus
Dragana Radaković holds both BA and MA degrees from conducting and singing departments of Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she graduated under tutelages of Prof. Stanko Šepić and Radmila Bakočević respectively. She has been working at the Faculty of Music since 2000, in a position of assistant at the Conducting Department, and since 2009, holding a position of the Assistant professor and head of the Operatic studio
As a student she performed with Belgrade Philharmonic orchestra and Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Orchestra of the Belgrade Opera and Serbian Military Artistic ensemble. She was conductor and artistic director of The Academic Cultural-Artistic Society ‘’Lola’’, with whom she accomplished over 70 concerts, throughout Serbia and abroad. A variety program concerts were held in Kolarac University Hall, Sava Center, House of Trade Unions Concert Hall, Congress city Hall etc., as well as in a number of Europe countries: Great Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia…
She was conductor of the Operatic studio ‘’Borislav Popović’’ in National theatre Belgrade for two seasons conducting Verdi’s Rigoletto and Serbian opera Na uranku by Stanislav Binički.
As a soprano she accomplished a great number of roles: Aida (Aida), Odabella, (Attila), Abigalille (La Forza del Destino), Leonora (Trovatore), Desdemona (Othello), Turandot, Tosca, Norma, Donna Anna, Musetta, Rosalinde, etc.
Recently she has had remarkable successes in Sydney Opera, where she sang 14 performances of Turandot, in Macau Music International Festival (China, Turandot), at the concert in Palau de les Arts, Valencia, as Tosca in State Budapest Opera, the State Opera houses in Romania (Timisoara, Bucarest, Cluj, Jasi), at the International Festival in Sibiu and Hunedoara, as well as at the International Festival in Slovenia in famous ‘’Cankarjev dom’’ hall, Ljubljana, and in Maribor Opera house. She had four premieres in Croatian National Opera in Osijek, and in Bulgaria at the festivals in Burgas, Varna and Stara Zagora. In Zurich, she participated in concert dedicated to Verdi’s 200 years birth anniversary. Her singing in Italy includes visits at the Macerata and Oderzo festivals