46 Notable alumni of
Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
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The Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno is 673rd in the world, 243rd in Europe, and 5th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Vladimír Menšík
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- film actorwritertelevision actorcomedianactor
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Vladimír Menšík was a Czech actor and entertainer. He is considered one of the greatest Czech comedians, storytellers and improvisers.
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Pavel Trávníček
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- television actorvoice actoractordirector
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Pavel Trávníček is a Czech actor. He has appeared in more than 70 film and television productions since 1971, most of them produced in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, occasionally in Germany.
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Bolek Polívka
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- film actordirectorscreenwritermime artistactor
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Boleslav Polívka is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright, and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 40 films.
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Hana Zagorová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1968
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- screenwritersingeractorrecording artistlyricist
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Hana Zagorová was a Czech singer-songwriter, actress, and presenter who recorded music since 1964. She is considered to be one of the most famous Czech singers. She won the national Zlatý slavík music award on nine occasions between 1977 and 1985, the second highest number of victories in the award's history, after Lucie Bílá, who won the successor award, Český slavík, thirteen times.
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Dagmar Havlová
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Dagmar Havlová is a Czech actress. She married Václav Havel, the former Czech President, on 4 January 1997. She has one daughter, Nina Veškrnová (born 1976), from a previous marriage to Radvít Novák (1975–1980).
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Josef Somr
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Josef Somr was a Czech actor. He was noted for starring in the Oscar-winning 1966 film Closely Watched Trains, as well as in The Joke.
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Eliška Balzerová
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- actor
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Eliška Balzerová is a Czech actress. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1971.
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Petra Hřebíčková
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied acting
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- actor
- Biography
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Petra Hřebíčková is a Czech stage and film actress. Her film debut was in the 2006 comedy I Served the King of England. On stage, she acted for six years at the Zlín City Theatre between 2003 and 2009, during which time she was named the Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards. Following her Thalia award, she has appeared in television series and films including Kawasaki's Rose (2009) and Men in Hope (2011). Since 2010 she has been a regular member of the theatre at Prague's Švandovo divadlo.
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Jitka Čvančarová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts in musical acting
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- actorsinger
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Jitka Čadek Čvančarová is a Czech actress.
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Eva Pilarová
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- pop singerphotographersingeractor
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Eva Pilarová, née Bojanovská was a Czech jazz and pop music singer.
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Miroslav Donutil
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- film actorwriterscreenwritertelevision actoractor
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Miroslav Donutil is a Czech theatrical, film and television actor, born in Třebíč. Since 1978 when he appeared as Hloch in Čistá řeka, Donutil has three decades of film and TV appearances. He dubbed the voice of Kevin Costner and Gérard Depardieu.
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Jiří Bartoška
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- actorfilm producertelevision actor
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Jiří Bartoška is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in Sekal Has to Die (1998), All My Loved Ones (1999), and Tiger Theory (2016), as well as the television series Sanitka (1984) and Neviditelní (2014).
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Květa Fialová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1946-1950
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- stage actordub actorfilm actoractornon-fiction writer
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Květa Fialová was a Czech actress. She was best known for her performance in Lemonade Joe.
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Hana Holišová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied acting
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- actor
- Biography
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Hana Holišová is a Czech actress and singer. At the 2012 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Musical.
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Jiří Dvořák
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- actordub actor
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Jiří Dvořák is a Czech actor. He starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
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Ondřej Havelka
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- film directormusicianscreenwriterdirectoractor
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Ondřej Havelka is a Czech jazz and swing singer, actor, and director.
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Pavel Liška
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- stage actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
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Pavel Liška is a Czech actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1997.
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Felix Slováček
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- clarinetistconductorjazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
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Felix Slováček is a Czech clarinetist, conductor, film composer, and saxophonist. He is married to the Czech actress Dagmar Patrasová.
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Pavel Zedníček
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- television actorpresenterdub actoractor
- Biography
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Pavel Zedníček is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1976 and 2011.
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Karel Heřmánek
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- actorstage actortelevision actor
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Karel Heřmánek is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1976 and 2008, including the role of Lucifer in 1984's S čerty nejsou žerty (Give the Devil His Due).
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Ladislav Frej
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- actor
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Ladislav Frej is a Czech actor and dubber.
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Václav Neužil
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- actor
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Václav Neužil is a Czech actor.
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Jana Plodková
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- actorstage actor
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Jana Plodková is a Czech actress. She studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. She speaks German fluently.
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Jana Švandová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1971
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Jana Švandová is a Czech actress. She has appeared in more than 65 films and television shows since 1969.
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Arnošt Goldflam
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- television presenterplaywrightpedagoguevisual artisttheatrical director
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Arnošt Goldflam is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in more than thirty films between 1986 and 2011.
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Gabriela Vránová
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- writerpedagogueactorteacher
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Gabriela Vránová was a Czech actress and voice actress.
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Miroslav Krobot
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- film actordirectorscreenwriterpedagogueactor
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Miroslav Krobot is a Czech theatre director and actor. He starred in the film The Man from London, which was entered into the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
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Táňa Fischerová
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- writerpoliticiantelevision presenterpolitical activistactor
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Taťana Fischerová was a Czech actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. She was a candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election.
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Věra Galatíková
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- actorfilm actorpedagogue
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Věra Galatíková was a Czech actress. She acted in Pardubice following her studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Galatíková then joined The Drama Club in Prague, where she performed between 1967 and 1972, later performing in other Prague venues including the National Theatre. At the 1994 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play. Galatíková was recognised at the 2000 František Filipovský Awards for her work in film voice dubbing. She died of cancer in 2007.
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Jaroslav Plesl
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- actor
- Biography
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Jaroslav Plesl is a Czech actor.
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Vladimír Javorský
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- actorperforming artistpainter
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Vladimír Javorský is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1986 and 2011.
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Alena Antalová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied musical acting
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- actor
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Alena Antalová is a Slovak actress.
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Bronislav Poloczek
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Bronislav Poloczek was a Polish-Czech theatre and television actor.
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Igor Bareš
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- actor
- Biography
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Igor Bareš is a Czech actor.
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Blanka Bohdanová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1951
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- writerpainterpoetactorpedagogue
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Blanka Bohdanová was a Czech film, stage and television actress, who performed over 80 roles at the National Theatre in Prague over a period of more than 50 years. Her best known movie roles were in Romeo, Juliet and Darkness, Když rozvod, tak rozvod and Thirty Cases of Major Zeman. At the 2001 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for her performance in a Czech rendition of Donald L. Coburn's play The Gin Game at Viola Theatre. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Thalia Awards' 2015 ceremony.
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Oldřich Navrátil
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- actor
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Oldřich Navrátil is Czech stage, film and television actor. He has appeared in 75 films and television shows since 1976 and starred in the 1982 film Incomplete Eclipse, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Jan Budař
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- 1996-2000 studied acting
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- directorwritertelevision actoractorillustrator
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Jan Budař is a Czech actor, director, singer, composer and script writer.
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Marek Daniel
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied puppeteer
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- actor
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Marek Daniel is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than 20 films since 1996 and had lead roles in Protector and Prezident Blaník.
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Zdeněk Mácal
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- conductorcomposer
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Zdeněk Mácal was a Czech conductor who worked internationally. The promising conductor who had won international competitions left his home country of Czechoslovakia in 1968 when the Warsaw Pact ended the Prague Spring, to return only after communism ended there. He was chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 1970, the NDR Orchestra of Hanover, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1986, then the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra until 1995, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1993, and finally the Czech Philharmonic from 2003 to 2007. He conducted all major orchestras of the world and was prolific in recording. One focus of his broad repertoire was Czech music, including contemporary music.
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Zdena Herfortová
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- pedagogueactor
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Zdena Herfortová is a Czech film and stage actress. She has performed over 90 theatre roles and 150 television roles. At the 1995 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for the title role in the production of Alžběta Anglická. She performed at the Mahen Theatre in Brno between 1968 and 1992, subsequently transferring to the Brno City Theatre. Since 1976, she has taught at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno.
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Vladimír Morávek
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied directing
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- film directorscreenwritertheatrical director
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Vladimír Morávek is a Czech theatre, film and television director, screenwriter and actor. His 2003 film Boredom in Brno won five Czech Lions. Between 1996 and 2005 he was art director of Klicperovo divadlo in Hradec Králové. Since 2005 he is the art director of Divadlo Husa na provázku.
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Petr Altrichter
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- conductor
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Petr Altrichter is a Czech conductor. He studied French horn and conducting at the Conservatory of Music in Ostrava. He also studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He worked as an assistant conductor to Václav Neumann at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Sylvie Bodorová
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- music teachercomposer
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Sylvie Bodorová is a Czech composer. During a career spanning from the late 1970s to the present day she has composed a large number of works for various instruments, both solo and orchestral pieces, and produced commissions for cities, festivals and organisations around the world. She was a founder (and only surviving) member of the Czech classical group Quattro, formed in 1996.
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Michal Šalomoun
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- 1992-1999 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting and dramaturgy
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Michal Šalomoun is a Czech lawyer and politician who has served as Czech Minister of Legislation and chairman of the Government Legislative Council in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since December 2021, nominated by the Czech Pirate Party.
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Rocc
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- 1998-2003 graduated with Magister Artium in opera director
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- dramaturgeperformance artistscenographerpedagogueopera director
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Rocc is a Slovenian-born opera and music theatre stage director, scenic designer, dramaturge, performance artist, opera manager and pedagogue. His mononymous pseudonym is a tribute to Marie Mrázková, Rocc's professor of stage acting and his life mentor.
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Tanja Miletić Oručević
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- theatrical directortranslator
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Tanja Miletić Oručević is a Bosnian theatre director, academic lecturer, and translator.
