Jadranka Jovanović


Jadranka Jovanović is a primadonna of Opera in the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia. She was born in Belgrade, and she is one of the most popular artists in the classic music in her country with a respected international career. Since 2016, she has also been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia.

Biography

In her native-town she graduated-B.A. in theory of music and solo singing and M.A. in solo singing.
She debuted as Rosina in Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Seviglia" at the National Theater in Belgrade, where she interpreted all main mezzo-soprano roles.
Her international career started at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan where she appeared in Carmen and Andrea Chénier, conducted by Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. At Scala she also appeared in the leading role in the world premiere staging of Orfeo by Luigi Rossi.
She mostly performed in Italian theatres, opera houses and festivals:
She sang in various operas in other countries:
Jovanović sung leading role in the first performance of Carmen in the Middle -East, in Abu Dhabi. She also sang at The Royal Opera de Vallonie, L'Opera de Nice, L`Opera de Toulon, L`Opera de Bordeaux, Teatro Cervantes, Teatro della Maestranza, Teatro Victoria Eugenia, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, Bedzih Smetana Hall, Opera Budapest, Opera Odessa, Salzburg, Dubrovnik Samer Festival, Opera Ljubljana i Opera Maribor, Thesaloniki, Brno, Beijing...
At Figeras she participated first world performance fragment of the opera Être Dieu with libretto of Salvador Dalí.
She has performed two recitals at Kennedy Center as well as a performance at Carnegie Hall.

Political career

Jovanović received the twelfth position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. She was not herself a member of the party but ran as an aligned independent. The list won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 parliamentary mandates, and Jovanović was sworn in as a legislator on 3 June 2016. During the 2016–20 assembly, she was a member of the parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the culture and information committee; the head of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie ; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Azerbaijan, Australia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Uganda, and the United States of America.
She received the twenty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 election and was elected to a second term when the list won another landslide majority with 188 mandates.