{"id":9656,"date":"2026-01-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/?page_id=9656"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:44:40","slug":"en-koncert-portreti-i-secanja-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/en\/en-2026\/en-koncert-portreti-i-secanja-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits and Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Concert: Portraits and Remembrance<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Between Fear and Faith<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Atrium of the National Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 8:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thematic concert marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Portraits and Remembrance, is conceived as an analytical and performative contribution to contemporary understandings of musical creation under the extreme historical circumstances of the Second World War. Within this year\u2019s Rosi Festival, the concert is positioned as a space of encounter between performance practice, musicological research, and critical reflection on the mechanisms of cultural memory and forgetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program focuses on works by composers Ilse Weber, Julija Weissberg, Else Beren, Henri\u00ebtte Bosmans, and Rosy Wertheim, whose biographies and oeuvres were directly shaped by wartime experiences, persecution, and institutional exclusion. Their works are not united by a single stylistic paradigm, but rather by a shared context of disrupted reception and fragmented presence within the music-historical narrative. In this way, the program opens questions concerning the relationship between historical circumstances, gender, and the formation of the musical canon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of the selected compositions reveals a variety of compositional strategies: from late-Romantic and Impressionist vocal lyricism, through neoclassical and modal elements, to simple, almost documentary musical forms that function in close relation to the text. In certain works, a conscious renunciation of stylistic development in favor of communicativeness and immediacy can be observed, which may be interpreted both as an aesthetic response to the conditions of their creation and as an ethical choice on the part of the composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A particular significance of the program lies in the performance of works reconstructed on the basis of surviving manuscripts, giving the concert the character of an exploratory and revisionist practice. Such an approach contributes to the expansion of the repertoire and enables the reintegration of marginalized oeuvres into contemporary concert life\u2014not merely through an act of commemoration, but through active artistic and scholarly reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this sense, the concert Portraits and Remembrance does not treat the Holocaust as a narrative framework, but as a historical context that profoundly affected the trajectories of musical production, reception, and the transmission of knowledge. The program affirms the Rosi Festival\u2019s commitment to a thoughtful integration of artistic excellence, musicological reflection, and a responsible engagement with the cultural heritage of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performers:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Marija Jeli\u0107, soprano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nada Matijevi\u0107, piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marija Jeli\u0107, soprano<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Marija Jeli\u0107 is one of the most prominent Serbian sopranos of the younger generation, with an already well-established international career. She has performed with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, El\u012bna Garan\u010da, Jonathan Tetelman, Jos\u00e9 Cura, and many other opera stars. She has appeared at the Ohrid Summer Festival, the Ljubljana Festival, and the Jerusalem Opera Festival, and has given a solo concert at Carnegie Hall (USA). She has performed with the Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia, at the National Theatre, the Serbian National Theatre, and with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past year, she performed with the Sofia Philharmonic, at the National Opera in Skopje, in Cairo in the role of Aida, as well as in Mexico, the USA, Korea, Italy, and Estonia. Her operatic roles include Mica\u00ebla (Carmen), Mim\u00ec (La Boh\u00e8me), Tosca, Aida, Elisabetta (Don Carlo), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), and Judith (Bluebeard\u2019s Castle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has also performed solo parts in major symphonic works such as Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, Carmina Burana, Symphony No. 3 by G\u00f3recki, Mahler\u2019s Fourth Symphony, Britten\u2019s song cycle Illuminations, and others. She has performed in Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel, China, Korea, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, France, Latvia, Estonia, Argentina, Mexico, Egypt, and the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marija Jeli\u0107, soprano<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Marija Jeli\u0107 is one of the most prominent Serbian sopranos of the younger generation, with an already well-established international career. She has performed with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, El\u012bna Garan\u010da, Jonathan Tetelman, Jos\u00e9 Cura, and many other opera stars. She has appeared at the Ohrid Summer Festival, the Ljubljana Festival, and the Jerusalem Opera Festival, and has given a solo concert at Carnegie Hall (USA). She has performed with the Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia, at the National Theatre, the Serbian National Theatre, and with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past year, she performed with the Sofia Philharmonic, at the National Opera in Skopje, in Cairo in the role of Aida, as well as in Mexico, the USA, Korea, Italy, and Estonia. Her operatic roles include Mica\u00ebla (Carmen), Mim\u00ec (La Boh\u00e8me), Tosca, Aida, Elisabetta (Don Carlo), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), and Judith (Bluebeard\u2019s Castle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has also performed solo parts in major symphonic works such as Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, Carmina Burana, Symphony No. 3 by G\u00f3recki, Mahler\u2019s Fourth Symphony, Britten\u2019s song cycle Illuminations, and others. She has performed in Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel, China, Korea, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, France, Latvia, Estonia, Argentina, Mexico, Egypt, and the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This concert, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presents works by women composers whose lives and creative output were shaped by wartime experience\u2014Ilse Weber, Julija Weissberg, Else Beren, Henri\u00ebtte Bosmans, and Rosi Wertheim. The program functions simultaneously as an artistic and research endeavor, reconstructing works preserved only in fragments and reintegrating them into contemporary concert life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":9615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9615,"url":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/en\/en-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":9656,"position":0},"title":"2026","author":"claudia","date":"15 January 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The 9th Edition of Rosi Fest January 27 \u2013 February 6, 2025, in Belgrade At the end of January, Belgrade audiences can look forward to the 7th edition of the international Rosi Fest. 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