Страхиня Джокич

Strahinja Djokić came to singing from the keyboard: piano at nine, voice at sixteen, and at nineteen already répétiteur at the Serbian National Theatre. He took his bachelor's and master's degrees in piano at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad with Biljana Gorunović, trained in the opera studio of the National Theatre in Belgrade and made his debut in 2014 as the Jailer in Tosca. Two years with Raina Kabaivanska at the Vecchi-Tonelli Institute in Modena from 2016, and a season at the Accademia del Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti in Martina Franca, turned him toward the Italian bass repertory; first prize and the best-bass award at the Nicolai Ghiaurov competition in Modena came in 2019, and first prize at the Ghena Dimitrova competition in 2021. He sings Timur and Colline at the Sofia Opera. Oroveso in Norma came at the Sofia Opera in 2017, a year after his first Timur there, and the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad heard his first Colline in 2018 and his Ferrando in Il trovatore a month later; Leporello followed in Belgrade and Dulcamara in Modena in 2022. He has sung Ramfis and the King in Aida, the Commendatore at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and a role in Le joueur at the Valle d'Itria festival, and he holds the grand prix of the Vera Kovač Vitkai competition and, from 2020, the Miroslav Čangalović diploma. Since 2019 he has accompanied singers at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.