Matija Svira Arsena

Robert Schumann considered Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner the most promising operatic composer in the country, yet despite his 21 operas he has been almost forgotten. Like most leading German composers of his time he took Meyerbeer's historical grand operas, conceived in Paris, as his model. Set in Sicily at the dawn of the 1848 revolution, Il vespro siciliano ('Die sizilianische Vesper' / 'The Sicilian Vespers') is a dramatic four-act opera that reveals why he was held in such esteem by Schumann, Spohr and Mendelssohn: expressive harmonies, folksong-like strophic songs, rich orchestration, the use of the latest stylistic devices, and tuneful bel canto melodies that point to the work's Franco-Italian lineage.

When the Yugoslav scene came to this orchestra - as if it was an explosion! He thundered like a storm a few years on the radio waves and show business following the top singers Balkans … Their famous passage-forspil between singing verses have become a true musical miniatures, and their famous improvisation on stage to throw in the shade singers, often the audience is greeted on the scene frenetic applause. It Petkovic's playing rights were breaking rhythm, dynamics, and improvisation to come with full enthusiasm on stage!