In the second half of August 2023, bass baritone Krešimir Stražanac and pianist Krešimir Starčević held a concert tour in Brazil!
Here are the cities and halls in which they performed:
• SÃO PAULO – Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano (August 20)
• BRASILIA – Teatro Plinio Marcos (August 27)
• GOIÁS – Cultural Centre of the State University of Goiâs (August 29)
The program of these concerts included selected Songs by Blagoje Bersa as well as Romances by Sergei Rachmaninov, with which musicians marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of both composers. In addition, they also performed selected Songs by the great Croatian female composer Dora Pejačević, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her death, while Starčević also performed her piano compositions Violets and Rose, as well as Bersa’s composition At the Strand. This was probably the first opportunity for the audience in Brazil to hear these works of Croatian composers and the audience gave a standing ovation after each concert!
The concert in São Paulo was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia in Brazil, Mr. Ranko Vilović, while the Minister Plenipotentiary, Mrs. Gordana Prelčec Sermek, was present at the concerts in Brasilia and Goiás. In honor of their arrival in Goiás, the Transamerica Collection Hotel Goiânia raised the Croatian flag!
