The multi-award-winning baritone Neven Crnić (including first prize winner at the international Haydn Competition in Rohrau and the Salice d'Oro Competition in Vienna) is a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden.

In the 2025/26 season, he will appear in a series of major opera productions at the theater. He will take on the role of Leander in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème, and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. He will also appear on stage as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni and as Beaupertuis in Nino Rota's The Florentine Hat. Crnić will also be heard in the Semper Soirée Nordlichter, a concert format with a thematic focus. In the concert field, Neven Crnić will sing Handel's Messiah in Regensburg and present a program of orchestral songs by Stanford and Delius in Fulda. On Good Friday, he will take on the baritone part in Gerhard Kaufmann's impressive Bonhoeffer Oratorio in Stuttgart.

Neven Crnić made guest appearances as Don Giovanni and Marchese di Posa at the Latvian National Opera in Riga and as Escamillo (Carmen) and Amonasro (Aida) at the opera festival in Burg Gars. He also appeared at the Cologne Opera in the role of Escamillo (Carmen). He appeared as Chansonette and Lovro in Gorenjski slavček. In a concert performance in Graz Kasematten, he sang Escamillo (Carmen) alongside Elina Garanča and Ramon Vargas. Crnić made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala Milan as Deputato flammingho (Don Carlo) and covered the role of Rodrigo Posa. He made his house debut at the SNG Opera Ljubljana as Schaunard in Puccini's opera La bohème.

His concert repertoire includes works such as Dvorak's Requiem, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Christ on the Mount of Olives, Bach's Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio and St. John and St. Matthew Passion, Haydn's Creation, Seasons, Stabat Mater and Theresienmesse, Handel's Messiah, Verdi Requiem, Faure Requiem, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Puccini's Messa di Gloria.

Crnić studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In 2017, he joined the opera studio at Graz Opera and sang roles such as Schaunard (La bohème), Silvio (Pagliacci) and 1st Nazarene (Salome). In 2019/20 he joined the ensemble, where he expanded his repertoire to include Leporello (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Marchese di Posa (Don Carlo), Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Gunther (Der Ring an einem Abend), Marcello (La bohème) and Sharpless (Madama Butterfly). In 2018 he was a member of the Salzburg Festival's Young Singer Project.