About Nikola Cvejić
Opera singer and vocal pedagogue Nikola Cvejić was born in Ašanja in Srem on January 23, 1896. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Forestry in Zagreb in 1924. He studied singing with J. Ourednik in Zagreb, M. Hubad in Ljubljana and with the Italian baritone Sammarko in Milan. He was an opera soloist in Ljubljana (1922-1925), Zagreb (1925-1930), Brno (1930-1940) and Belgrade (1940-1960). He performed independently and with the Belgrade Opera on 27 national and European stages. He died in Novi Sad on February 6, 1987.
This impressive stage artist with an extremely beautiful and powerful vocal, as well as a large voice range, achieved 1440 performances and 87 baritone and bass roles of different character. His interpretations of Scarpio, Boris, Figaro, Escamillo, Zrinsky, etc. are unforgettable. He performed with great success on the concert stage and on the radio, in the country and abroad, as a top performer of lido. He stands out especially as an interpreter of Yugoslav composers. He recorded a total of 21 gramophone records of opera arias and lidos, accompanied by orchestra or piano, for record companies "Parlophone", "His Master Voice" and "Edison Bell".
As a professor of solo singing at the Academy of Music in Belgrade, Nikola Cvejić achieved a monumental pedagogical work, introducing a whole galaxy of outstanding artists to our and the world's opera art, including: Radmila Bakočević, Danica Mastilović, Olivera MILjaković, Duško Popović, Đorđe Đurđević, Radmila Todorovska, Gordana Jevtović, Georgi Minov, Vladimir Jovanović, Blanka Danon and others. At the same time, he was a member of the jury at numerous international singing competitions (Geneva, Toulouse, Budapest, Sofia, Liège, Munich and Rio de Janeiro).
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