Renata Pokupić enjoys a great international reputation and is at the moment the most sought-after musician abroad. In a series of noted roles that she made on stages of famed opera houses a special honour is reserved for her part of Irene in Handel's Tamerlane in the Covent Garden Royal opera, which is also the first performance of a Croatian singer on that stage in several decades. There she, like her predecessors Milka Trnina, Zinka Kunc, Ruža Popiš Baldani and others immediately became a favourite of not just the audience but of the critics as well, who say for her that such ilirism and elegance of voice has been rarely witnessed, and coupled with a delight in interpretation made her an unrivalled singer. She has been recently to the US, at the behest of the director of the Washington Nation Opera, Placido Domingo, singing the role of Cherubim in Mozart's opera “Le nozze di Figaro”. This is only the beginning as another role awaits her next season in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” in the production of the famous Jonathan Miller. Dedicated to recitals, she works with the internationally praised pianist Roger Vignoles, who frequently performs with the best singers in the grandest concert halls of the world and is said to be the leading authority in the field of solo songs. His work includes recording a sizeable discography with works from the German “Lied” as well as Spanish canzone’s and cabarets songs. Music critics throughout the world recognized his uniqueness, naming him the embodiment of the piano companion and a true heir to Gerald Moore, with a piano sound that “has no equal”.

Coincidentally, solo songs was the performing act of these top artists in the Rector’s Palace. On the programme are Tomášek's songs composed with Goethe's verses, Smetana’s popular “Evening Songs” who have risen to so much fame and given such praise they have taken their place as part of the music memory of the Czech people. Also on the repertoire are Dvořák’s “Gipsy songs” of a lyric and melancholic character, which touch the spirit and style of gipsy music as well as songs of a more modern composer, Kurt Weill.