Besa Llugiqi

Kosovar soprano Besa Llugiqi has appeared as a soloist with the Kosovo Philharmonic and sang in the orchestra's New Year concerts in Pristina in December 2013 and December 2014, with Kaltrina Miftari, Liridon Sadriu, Safet Berisha, Riad Ymeri and Adelina Paloja among her colleagues. Born in Pristina in 1986, she studied there with Ahmet Dërguti and took a master's degree with Maria Muratovska in Skopje, and from 2012 worked with Christina Anghelakova in Sofia. Her stage debut was Liù in Turandot at the Tirana State Opera in 2011, and the Grand Prix of the Elena Nikolai competition in Bulgaria came in 2013; Donna Elvira, Lauretta, Mimì, Lucia, Violetta and Marguerite in Faust belong to her repertoire, alongside the Fauré and Mozart requiems. She sang Thaïs at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk and, in 2019, Inès in L'Africaine, in a staging by Vera Nemirova made with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.