The Raymond Nicolet Trust is delighted and honoured to welcome Serbian soprano Marija Jelic as one of its patron.
Marija Jelic was born on 23th of February 1993 in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. After finishing Mathematical Gymnasium and High Music School "Kosta Manojlovic" for flute and solo singing, she finished the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade and continued to learn to sing from primadonna Jasmina Trumbetas Petrovic who is a soprano singer at the Belgrade National Theater.
In 2017 Marija passed an audition for the opera studio in the Belgrade National Theater and started to sing small and main roles in opera productions: Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Barbarina, La Contessa), Verdi: Il Trovatore (Ines), Puccini: Boheme (Mimi), Bizet: Carmen (Micaela), Puccini : Gianni Schicci (Lauretta), Puccini: Suor Angelica (Angelica), Puccini: Turandot (Liu), Leoncavallo Pagliacci (Nedda), Verdi Otello(Desdemona), Verdi: Nabucco (Anna), Binicki Na Uranku (Stanka).
Marija was awarded at national competitions in singing. Furthermore, she sang in the main halls and concerts in Serbia such as in Concert La Divina with orchestra Stanislav Binicki at Kolarac Hall, in Belgrade Philharmonic Spring Concert with Chinese Orchestra, Lid Concert of Rachmaninoff songs at Belgrade Summer Festival.
She sang in the opera gala concert End of Summer festival in Wernigerode (Germany). She sang ten concerts with St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Darrel Ang (Mariinsky Theater) in the National Library in Beijing, Dongying Grand Theater, Liniy Snow Lotus Theater. She has debuted with the role Mimi in Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad.
She sang with many conductors such as E. Plasson, C. Fitzner, D. Savic, A. Guliyev, F. Pavisic.
Her interpretations are well known for her freshness, her sincerity and the brightness of her soprano tessitura. She owns a beautiful vocal line, the mellow top notes, beautiful sustained piano which she uses skillfully and shows an unrivalled artistic intensity.
