Jasmin Bašić

Jasmin Bašić
Jasmin Bašić
Background information
Birth name	Jasmin Bašić
Born	7 December 1971 (age 52); Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Genres	Classical Music, Opera, Cabaret, musical, les chansons françaises, Traditional Music – Sevdalinka
Occupation(s)	Opera singer
Instrument(s)	Voice
Years active	1994–present
Website	National Theatre Sarajevo / Opera

Jasmin Bašić (born 7 December 1971) is a Bosnian tenor and author.

He graduated in 2003 and obtained his Master of Music Degree (Vocal performance and pedagogy) from University of Sarajevo in 2006 under famous and world's recognized soprano Radmila Bakočević Belgrade (Serbia).

Up to 2009, he specialized with the Wiener Staatsoper Kammersängerin Olivera Miljaković in Vienna (Austria). He is employed at the National Theatre Sarajevo as opera soloist and is recognized as vocal pedagogue. Apart from that he also held solo concerts, and has collaborated with Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchester Pons Artis from Vienna. In 2016. also jubilee opera season, he performed the duty of artistic director of the opera in Sarajevo.

Opera repertoire

Nabucco (Verdi) – Ismaele
Eugene Onegin (Tschaikowsky) – Lenski
Hasanaginica (Horozić) – Judge of Imotski
Nikola Šubić Zrinski (opera) (Zajc) – Great Vesire
The Magic Flute (Mozart) – Monostatos
Don Giovanni (Mozart) – Don Ottavio
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) – Basilio
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart) – Bastien
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Viva la mamma) (Donizetti) - Stefano
Carmen (Bizet) – Remendado
Safikada (Insanić) – Asker
The Hedgehog's Little House (Vauda) – Wolf (opera for children)
Aska and The Wolf (Horozić) – Doctor Ovnovic (opera for children)
La Traviata (Verdi) – Gaston de Letoriéres
Rigoletto (Verdi) – Borsa

Operatic repertoire

Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) – Jupiter
The Merry Widow (Lehar) – Ambassador Zeta
Die Csárdásfürstin (The Csárdás Princess) / (Kalman) – Graf Boni Kancianu
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) / (Strauss) – Alfred

Musical

Cabaret (musical) (John Kander / Fred Ebb). Adaptation of the musical film "Cabaret" (1972) directed by Bob Fosse – The Emcee
Annie (musical) (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan) – Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks

Bibliography

Primadonna Gertruda Munitić. Museum of Literature & Performing Arts Sarajevo, 2017.
Krunoslav Kruno Cigoj Museum of Literature & Performing Arts Sarajevo, Matica hrvatske Mostar, Croat Cultural Society Napredak Sarajevo, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts B&H, 2019.