About us

Opera that embraces its audience

Three baritones from three European countries, with experience at major opera houses – and a wish to bring great music to everyone.

Our story

How three voices met

The idea came from Osijek's principal opera baritone Dalibor Hanzalek: to bring together outstanding baritones from different countries and take opera out of the opera house – onto town squares, summer stages and into concert halls.

“I've always wanted to reach a wider audience,” says Hanzalek. He was joined by the Pole Dariusz Perczak, a long-standing soloist at Graz Opera, and the young Czech Robin Červinek, winner of the Prague Singer competition. And so the European 3 Baritones were born.

Their concert brings together the best of four musical worlds: opera arias, timeless evergreens and pop hits, Italian canzone and Croatian hits. The big-stage sound comes from the orchestra and band of composer and conductor Josip Cvitanović.

Three baritones singing under turquoise lights, Osijek 2026

The baritones

Meet the singers

Dalibor Hanzalek

Croatia

Dalibor Hanzalek

Baritone · founder of the project

Born in Zagreb, he graduated from the Academy of Music there in the class of Prof. Nada Puttar-Gold. He made his opera debut in 1997 in Opava, Czech Republic, and went on to perform in Plzeň, Prague and Brno.

He is the principal baritone of the Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, and his roles include Scarpia in Puccini’s “Tosca”. For the role of Severus in Bajamonti’s “The Translation of St Domnius” at the Varaždin Baroque Evenings he received the “Ivan Lukačić” Award.

He has made guest appearances at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest (title role in “Nikola Šubić Zrinjski”), the National Theatre in Belgrade (title role of “Nabucco”), Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana and the concert hall in Valencia. On tour in Japan he sang the Toreador in “Carmen” in Tokyo (Bunka Kaikan), Osaka and Kobe.

  • HNK Osijek
  • HNK Zagreb
  • HNK Rijeka
  • “Ivan Lukačić” Award
  • Prague
  • Plzeň
  • Budapest
  • Trieste
  • Belgrade
  • Tokyo
  • Osaka
  • Kobe
Dariusz Perczak

Poland

Dariusz Perczak

Baritone

Born in 1989 in Kielce, he graduated from the Academy of Music in Łódź, continued his studies in Mannheim, and in 2022 earned a doctorate in the arts at the academy in Wrocław.

From 2015 to 2023 he was a soloist at Graz Opera, where he sang more than 200 performances and nearly 30 roles, among them Marcello, Onegin, Figaro and Enrico.

He has performed at the Bregenz Festival, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, the New Theatre and Music Theatre in Łódź and Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, and is currently at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.

  • Graz Opera
  • Bregenz
  • Warsaw
  • Klagenfurt
Robin Červinek

Czechia

Robin Červinek

Baritone · the youngest of the trio

Born in 1994 in Kyjov, he completed master’s degrees at the Janáček Academy in Brno in 2021 and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2023.

He was overall winner of the Prague Singer competition in 2018 and of the Antonín Dvořák International Competition in 2022, and in 2021 he won the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Interpretation Competition.

He appears as a guest at the National Theatre Brno, the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, the Moravian Theatre Olomouc, the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, HNK Zagreb and Theater Chemnitz, and in 2024 he sang Figaro at the Munot Festival in Switzerland. He has also performed in the USA.

  • Prague Singer 2018
  • Czech Philharmonic
  • Brno
  • Vienna
  • Switzerland
  • USA

Music director

Josip Cvitanović

Conductor, composer and arranger

Composer, conductor, arranger and music producer, winner of the Porin Award in 2001, 2008 and 2021. He is artistic director of the Chansonfest festival in Krapina, and from 2003 to 2007 he was chief conductor and arranger of the Porin Awards ceremony. Under his direction, the orchestra and band give the baritones the sound of a big stage.

  • Porin 2001
  • Porin 2008
  • Porin 2021
  • Chansonfest Krapina
European 3 Baritones

Chamber line-up

European 3 Baritones & Trio

At chamber concerts the baritones are accompanied by a trio: Tomislav Parmać (electric piano), Antun Stašić (violin) and Neven Šverko (cello). In this line-up they gave a gala concert at the Joza Ivakić City Theatre in Vinkovci on 31 August 2025.

Tomislav ParmaćElectric piano
Antun StašićViolin
Neven ŠverkoCello

Our journey so far

Our timeline

  1. June 2025

    Opatija

    A grand gala concert on the Summer Stage opens the summer season of the Opatija Festival.

  2. August 2025

    Preko

    A gala concert with the trio on the open-air stage in Preko, on the island of Ugljan.

  3. August 2025

    Posedarje

    A summer spectacular at the Fish and Wine Festival – opera by the sea with the flavours of Dalmatia.

  4. August 2025

    Vinkovci

    A gala concert at the Joza Ivakić City Theatre, in chamber line-up with the trio.

  5. December 2025

    Arsenal, Zadar

    Ilirija Gala Night at the Arsenal Concert Hall, with Josip Cvitanović’s band.

  6. May 2026

    Čepin

    An open-air concert for Croatian National Day, with orchestra – and the first drone above the stage.

  7. July 2026

    Osijek

    A sold-out Franjo Krežma Hall and a standing ovation at the end of the evening.

  8. August 2026

    Posedarje

    Back in Posedarje: a summer concert with the band.

  9. Next

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A festive concert for the whole family – from opera to Sinatra, pop hits and Croatian evergreens. Get in touch and we'll tailor the programme to your audience.

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