Lucija Ercegovac
Mezzo-soprano Lucija Ercegovac, after completing her vocal studies at the Music Academy in Zagreb under the guidance of Dunja Vejzović, continued her education at the Swiss Opera Studio at the University of the Arts in Bern, specializing in operatic performance in the class of Tanja Ariane Baumgartner.
In the 2022/23 season, she was a member of the ensemble at Stadttheater Bern, where she appeared as the Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte; Rossweisse in Wagner’s Die Walküre; La Chatte, L’Ecureuil, and Un Pâtre in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges; Laura in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta; and as the Second Priestess and Greek Woman in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. In the 2024 season, she performed the role of Pauline in Offenbach’s operetta La Vie parisienne.
Alongside her studies, she has attended masterclasses focused on early music performance, Gregorian chant, Baroque music, as well as Lied and opera interpretation with many distinguished musicians, including Alex Potter, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Katarina Livljanić, Cornelis Witthoefft, Peter Harvey, Anke Vondung, and Regula Mühlemann. She further honed her interpretation of J.S. Bach’s music under Philippe Herreweghe and Peter Kooij through a program organized by the ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent.
In the Rossini Gala project, together with the Bern Symphony Orchestra’s La Banda Storica – which performs on period instruments – she sang well-known Rossini operatic duets under the baton of Jakob Lehmann.
Since 2023, she has been a member of the vocal ensemble La Capella Reial de Catalunya, performing under the direction of Jordi Savall with the instrumental ensemble Le Concert des Nations. She is also a member of the vocal group Zürcher Sing-Akademie, led by Florian Helgath, which regularly performs with the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra.
In March 2025, she appeared as a soloist at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, performing under the direction of renowned Bach specialists Jos van Veldhoven and Hans-Christoph Rademann.