Olivera Gočanin is a young and accomplished soprano from Serbia, praised for her expressive stage presence.

She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, while also pursuing Italian, Latin, and Greek at the Faculty of Philology. 
 

Her professional training began early at the Opera Studio of Opera & Theatre Madlenianum. In 2019, she made her debut with the company, performing the role of Elisetta in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto and the Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.
 

In 2021, Olivera was selected for the two-year international project Opera: Past, Present, Perfect!, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme. Within this project, she performed lead roles in rarely staged and contemporary operas, including Stanka in S. Binički’s At Dawn, Juliet Brook in Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera/The Little Sweep, and the Child in M. Živković’s award-winning opera Nursery.
 

She has worked closely with several internationally renowned artists through prestigious masterclasses. For years she has attended the Grand Stage International masterclasses of the Metropolitan opera soprano Olga Makarina, Vlad Iftinca, Hugo Mahieux.

She studied multiple times at the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Prof. Michèle Crider, including additional training in diction and Alexander Technique.

She also participated in a masterclass with maestro Srboljub Dinić, General Music Director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
 

In 2022, she debuted in the roles of Micaëla and Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen during the Pehlivanian Opera Academy in Slovenia, performing the full opera in over ten staged concerts.

In 2024, Olivera joined the Opera Studio in Novi Sad, where she debuted as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and as Adele in Die Fledermaus.

Her vocal and artistic excellence has been recognized with numerous awards, including Rossi Fest Mozart Competition (1st Prize) Cantofest (1st Prize), Corsica Lirica (3rd Prize), Nikola Cvejić, Lazar Jovanović, and national competitions such as Serbian Solo Song, Mita Topalović, and the National Singing Competition UMBPS.
 

An experienced concert performer, she has appeared in major concert halls across Serbia, including the Sava Center, Kolarac Endowment, National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbian National Theatre, and the Trade Union Hall. She performed as a soloist at a New Year’s Gala Concert with the RTS Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Srboljub Dinić, as well as at a World Music Day Gala Concert at the Trade Union Hall.
 

Guided by a love for language, character, and music, Olivera Gočanin brings authenticity and emotional depth to every role she inhabits. As a mother of two daughters, she draws on a rich inner life to shape a career rooted in both personal truth and meaningful artistic connection.