Sofija

Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1991, Sofija Petrovic graduated from the Faculty of Music Arts in her native city in 2014, where she received her bachelor’s in Voice under Russian soprano Ljudmila Gross. In 2012, the soprano won the Grand Prix at the most renowned republican competition in Serbia and received a scholarship from the government of Belgrade. In the same year, Petrovic was the youngest finalist at the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Competition in Austria, after which mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova invited Sofija to be her guest in St. Petersburg and to participate in her masterclass in Moscow.

In the summer of 2013, Petrovic received a scholarship to attend Julliard voice teacher Daniel Ferro’s masterclass in Tuscany, Italy. She also sang in a number of concerts in Firenze, Greve in Chianti and worked with La Scala’s principal coach maestro collaborator, Massimiliano Bullo, as well as other coaches and vocal teachers like Peter Castaldi, Ricardo Herrera and Bruno Rigacci. In October of the same year, Petrovic was heard in Vienna by voice teacher Bill Schuman and subsequently invited to audition for the Academy of Vocal Arts four-year training program in Philadelphia, where she began her studies in September of 2014.

In June of 2015, Petrovic was invited to prepare the title role in Madama Butterfly at Martina Arroyo’s summer program in New York City. During the same period...