Soloist

Sava Vemić

Bass Sava Vemić studied in his hometown of Belgrade and then spent three years in New York as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Programme (LYADP) of the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of James Levine, where he received important impulses from singers such as Renata Scotto, Dimitris Kavrakos, Bonaldo Giaiotti and Sherrill Milnes. He made his debut in Belgrade in 2013 as Sarastro (»Die Zauberflöte«) and the following season at Carnegie Hall as Sir Walter Raleigh in Donizetti’s »Roberto Devereux«. Further engagements took him to Seville (»Der Kaiser von Atlantis«), Tel Aviv (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«), the Aix-en-Provence Festival (»Ariadne auf Naxos«), the Metropolitan Opera, where he appeared in »Nabucco« under James Levine and sang his first Prince Gremin (»Eugene Onegin«), and to Tokyo as Sarastro. In 2021 he sang Cesare Angelotti (»Tosca«) at La Monnaie in Brussels, in 2022 Il Re d’Egitto (»Aida«) at the Arena di Verona. He is also a regular guest at the Opéra National de Paris and at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Sava Vemić has received several awards, including first prizes at the 2016 Opera Index International Vocal Competition in New York and the 2014 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. He is a second prize winner at the Loren L. Zachary International Competition 2017 in Los Angeles and NYC and was a finalist in the Belvedere Competition 2017. From 2020‒2022 he was an ensemble member at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where his roles included Gremin, Enrico VIII (»Anna Bolena«), Sarastro, Sparafucile (»Rigoletto«) and Crespel (»Les Contes d’Hoffmann«).