Marin Vitas

Marin Vitas (Split, 1989) has a master's degree in solo singing at the University of Mostar (N. Manuilenko; A. Pljevljak-Krehić). In 2016, he made his debut in the comic opera Turia and Plamenko by B. Erceg. He participates as a soloist in the choreo-drama concert Narration and Operation, directed by I. L. Lema, and in the musical spectacle Mozart in the Garden, conceived and conducted by I. Tatarević. In Split, under the direction of maestro E. Mihajlović, he sings the role of Ottone in Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of the Pope. The graduate study of solo singing rounds off with a performance in the church of St. Paul's in Cambridge (England) with the performance of Stabat Mater by G. B. Pergolesi. In 2019, in the series of concerts "Vinko Lesić" in Split, he made a notable performance and was awarded a special prize, a master workshop with the renowned Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić. During his studies, Marin regularly attended singing seminars and vocal workshops with renowned pedagogues: Fiorenza Cedolins, Nelli Manuilenko, Jose van Damn, Radmila Bakočević, Egon Mihajlović, Daniela Schillaci, Renata Pokupić and others. He attended the postgraduate training program at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of Professor Renata Pokupić, with whom he performed together with the Croatian Baroque Ensemble (HRBA) in 2020 at the Croatian House in Split. At the academy, he participated in several projects as a soloist. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Academy of Music in Zagreb under the baton of maestro Mladen Tarbuk and directed by Krešimir Dolenčić, he sang one of the main roles in the opera Animal Farm (Snowball). The play was awarded the rector's prize. In the autumn of 2023, he performed the cantata of J.S. Bach - "Wieder stehe doch der Sunde".-together with the Mostar Chamber Ensemble in Mostar and Sarajevo Cathedrals. He continues to improve in Zagreb with professors Željka and Neda Martić.