Sofija

Born in Belgrade, mezzo soprano Serbia Sofija Petrovic graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts in her native city in 2014, where she received her bachelor’s in Voice under Russian soprano Ljudmila Gross. She started studying as a soprano but later switched to mezzo. In 2012, Petrovic won the Grand Prix at the most renowned republican competition in Serbia and received scholarship from the government of Belgrade. In the same year, she was the youngest finalist at the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Competition in Austria, after which mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova invited the young artist to be her guest in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Dedicated to her craft, Sofija Petrovic has participated in many master classes with Luciana d’Intino, Ludovic Tézier, famed Juilliard teacher Daniel Ferro, Ildar Abdrazakov, Martina Arroyo, Raina Kabaivanska and more. She was invited to join in 2013/14. AVA- Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and after in 2015/16. became a part of the Atélier Lyrique of Opéra National de Paris where she was a resident artist for 3 years.

Petrovic performed as Mrs. Coyle in Benjamin Britten’s Owen Wingtave at the Opéra Bastille and Sängerin at La Ronde by Boesmans. She covered the role of Cassandre in Les Troyens in Bastille and also performed excerpts from the same opera in concert at the Palais Garnier. She played Aksinya in Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk by Schostakovich directed by Warlokowski. In Paris she sang many concerts, performed many times for brand Hermes in Opera Garnier, Grand Palais, Taipei (Taiwan) and sang extracts of Verdi’s Lady Macbeth in a movie Magie Noire by Funny Ardant.