Anja Papa Peranović (1994), soprano, graduated in Voice with Summa Cum Laude in the class of prof. Berislav Jerković and in Piano from the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek obtaining the academic degree of Master of Music. She is currently employed as a teaching assistant at the Department of Music of the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, Croatia. She is enrolled in the  Postgraduate Interdisciplinary University Study of Culture and Arts at J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek.

Her opera appearances have included the roles of Despina in Cosi fan tutte (Mozart), Gianetta in L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Musetta in La Boheme (Puccini), Nella in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Serpina in La serva Padrona (Pergolesi) and Armida in Rinaldo (Händel). She has participated in renowned international festivals in the country and abroad, has been equally successful in opera and concert repertoire. She has collaborated with famous conductors such as Sándor Gyüdi (Hungary), Balázs Kocsár (Hungary) and director Magdalene Minnaar (Cape Town, South Africa) as well as with prominent orchestras: the Szeged Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pécs Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Luka Sorkočević Chamber Orchestra, etc. In addition to opera, she has a great passion for lied, oratorio and concert repertoire. She feels as much at home on the operatic stage as she does on the lied and concert podiums and is acclaimed by audiences and critics. In the field of concert repertoire, she excelled as soprano soloist in Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana and the oratorio of the Croatian contemporary composer Bruno Vlahek, Stabat Mater. She recorded the CD performing the main role of Ružica in the first Croatian children’s opera Šumska kraljica, composed by Franjo Štefanović and conducted by Antoaneta Radočaj-Jerković with soloists and choirs of the Institute for Choral Music Polifonija, Osijek and pianist Davor Dedić. The CD was published by the Croatian publishing house Croatia Records. She has received a number of awards in national and international singing competitions. For her artistic achievements during her studies she received the Dean’s and Rector’s awards. At the Mozarteum University in Salzburg she received artistic professional training with prof. Michele Creider, prof. Claudia Visca at the International Youngmasters singing master class in Samobor, Nicholas Clapton, Kathy Price as well as the famous sopranos Chen Reiss and Anna Samuil. She regularly performs as an opera, choral and concert soloist in Croatia and abroad (Italy, United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Serbia, Jordan, Spain, France, etc.)