Matija Arnautović, baritone, born in Šabac in 2001, where he graduated from the Mihailo Vukdragović high school of music in the class of professor Marija Mitić Vasić. Now he is a student at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of prof. Ed. Ph.d Violeta Pančetović Radaković. He is the winner of the Miroslav Čangalović award in 2022, for his achievements on the opera stage. He had his debut in 2022 in Benjamin Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera/The Little Chimney as Black Bob and Tom.
He is the winner of several prizes in competitions, of which the first prize in Skopje at the international Polyhymnia festival is significant. With the association Visoko C, he participated in several opera performances for children, such as: The Magic Flute(Sarastro), Puss in Boots (Lyudoja and the older brother) and Bash-Celik (Giant).
He attended the Summer Opera School in Ečka in 2021 and in Novi Bečej in 2022, organized by Music Opera Theater Association MOTO (Belgrade). He is currently working on the preparation of the modern opera Čista voda, by Olga Janković, which will be premiered at the Duško Radović Small Theatre.