Renata Pokupić
RENATA POKUPIC, MEZZO-SOPRANO
Her most recent and future engagements include performances with La Serenissima at Wigmore Hall, NERONE Agrippina at Teatro de la Maestranza Seville, MEG PAGE Falstaff Opera Omaha, The Messiah Bergen National Opera, NERONE Agrippina and IDAMANTE Idomeneo Vlaamse Opera, IRENE Theodora Scottish Chamber Orchestra, NERONE L’incoronazione di Poppea Academy of Ancient Music, an Italian programme with Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, CPE Bach’s Magnificat Insula Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven Symphony No.9 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Recent operatic engagements include CHERUBINO Le nozze di Figaro, SIEBEL Faust and IRENE Tamerlano Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Cendrillon (title role) Opéra de Lille, DORABELLA Così fan tutte Washington National Opera and NERONE Agrippina Antwerp, Lille, Dijon and Beaune. She has also sung CHERUBINO Washington National Opera, Opera Vlaanderen, Gulbenkian Lisbon, and Los Angeles Opera; OCTAVIAN Der Rosenkavalier Minnesota Orchestra, BRADAMANTE Orlando Furioso Oper Frankfurt, SESTO La clemenza di Tito Chicago Opera Theater, ANNIO La clemenza di Tito Opéra de Lyon and Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (title role) Grange Park Opera.
Much in demand on the concert platform, she recently made her Australian debut as MARGUERITE La damnation de Faust Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, sang Berlioz Roméo et Juliette Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Dvorak Stabat Mater Collegium Vocale Gent as well as DSO Berlin. She has also sung Schubert Mass in E flat Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Haydn Scena di Berenice Hofkapelle Esterházy, Handel Joshua Händel Festival Göttingen, Rossini and Respighi arias Scottish Chamber Orchestra, CECILIO in Anfossi’s Lucio Silla Mozarteum Salzburg with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Bruckner Mass in F minor Orchestre de Paris, St Matthew Passion Bach Choir, TIRINTO Imeneo Academy of Ancient Music and a tour of ‘Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’ Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
She sang Davide Penitente Festival de Saint-Denis, St Matthew Passion Rotterdam Philharmonic, Haydn Paukenmesse Mozart Coronation Mass and Haydn Stabat Mater Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Mozart Requiem BBC Proms, and appeared Le Concert d’Astrée’s 10th anniversary concert. In previous seasons she has sung in Concert d’Astrée’s Alcina, Orlando Furioso Ensemble Matheus, Beethoven Symphony No.9 Orchester Beethoven Bonn, Mahler Symphony No.2 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Pulcinella Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Mozart and Rossini arias Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Haydn The Creation Northern Sinfonia, Elijah London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach Christmas Oratorio Ensemble Matheus, and Pergolesi Stabat Mater Les Talens Lyriques.
An accomplished recitalist, Pokupić works regularly with the internationally acclaimed Roger Vignoles. They have appeared together at the Wigmore Hall, The Frick Collection New York, Danube Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Petworth Festival, Bath Mozartfest, Delft Chamber Festival, and the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Their recent programmes have included works by Mahler, Tomášek, Brahms, Britten, Schumann and Faure. They also have also recently released an album of songs by Václav Tomášek for Hyperion Records.
In Croatia she regularly performs with Croatian Symphony Orchestra and Croatian Baroque Ensemble (HRBA).