O Carlo, ascolta... Io morró... (Nikola Diskic)

Giusepoe verdi - "Don Carlo" - "O Carlo, ascolta... Io morrò ma lieto in core..."
Nikola Diskic, Baritone
FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM:
/ nikoladiskic
Tormented Hero
The Marquis de Posa is the most metaphorical figure in the opera, not least because the very essence of his existence and behaviour would have been impossible in Philip II's court. Posa's mission (but not the man himself) is historically founded: to free Flanders of oppression.
Each event, however, is greater than Posa's participation in it. If anything, Posa's metaphoric existence as the emerging cry for self‐determination and greater democratic ideals, though it is very sympathetic, is suffocated in a larger social, personal, political, religious problems that requires a dramatic sacrifice to achieve any stabilit to his character's existence.
Posa is a constant and consistent force throughout the opera. A shoulder to cry on for each and everyone. His outbursts are always born of passion that surprises even himself and thus require immediate further dialogue. The challenge artistically to a role like Posa is, in fact, to avoid the heroic. If one sings exactly as the master wrote, constant in his use of pianissimi, trills, phrase markings, rests, there emerges a character who is more intent on finding his way in each new circumstance.
Nikola Diskic has a large operatic repertoire from the baroque to the present day. As an art song singer and concert soloist, he has extensive concert activities. In 2012, he was awarded the Arnold Petersen Prize of the Roland Ernst Foundation as a “promising young talent with great future prospects”. Diskic received the "Trude Eipperle-Rieger Prize" in 2015 for outstanding artistic talent. In the press, the baritone is praised for its "vocal nobility", its "elegantly toned material", its "glorious legato" and for its "excellent phrasing and presentation" and described as "robust, voluminous and brilliant". The Serbian baritone was born in Belgrade, where he received his first vocal training. Diskic completed - in addition to a successful business studies - his vocal training and his master’s degree at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim.