Улога жене у високом образовању: спрега оперског уметника и вокалног педагога у периоду југословенског социјализма
The Role of Women in Higher Education: The Connection Between the Opera Artist and the Vocal Pedagogue in the Period of Yugoslav Socialism

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper relates to the research on the role of women in higher education in the context of Yugoslav socialism (1945–1990) with a focus on creating an opera artist through education and professional experience to vocal pedagogue at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. In this sense, the paper will cover the period in which future primadonnas trained their voices (1950s), built their domestic and foreign opera careers (from the 1960s to the 1990s) and then their pedagogical work (from 1990s). For the purposes of the research, it was necessary to collect and systematize material that includes biographies and testimonies of primadonnas, from which conclusions were drawn about vocal music practice, ie. solo singing at the Faculty of Music, and about the opportunities that education provides to young students for affirmation in this vocation. The aim of the paper is to place the life stories of the primadonna of the Belgrade Opera in the context of the Yugoslav socialist society, with the intention of shedding light on educational, career and pedagogical development, as well as the conditions that contributed to their artistic and later pedagogical vocation.

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