Croatian tenor Bože Jurić-Pešić specialises in Italian verismo roles, such as Rodolfo and Pinkerton in Puccini's La Bohème and Madama Butterfly or Cassio and Alfredo in Verdi's Otello and La Traviata.
Shortly after making his debut in Zagreb, Croatia in 2015, Bože performed on the grand stage of the Berlin Philharmonic, where he sang in Felix Mendelssohn’s symphony “Lobgesang“. Since then, he has been engaged by the Croatian National Theatre in Split, where he has sung numerous roles since 2018, to include Turiddu in Cavallelria Rusticana, Ismael in Verdi’s Nabucco, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Podesta in La Finta Giardiniera by Mozart, Lensky in Eugen Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Don José in Carmen by Bizet, Der Fischer in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, and Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
In concert, Bože sang in a long list of orchestral and oratory works, such as Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Mozart’s Requiem, his Great C-minor Mass and the Coronation Mass, Brucker’s Te Deum, and Schubert’s Mass in G major.
In 2018 he received the prestigious Croatian Theater Award for Best Artistic Achievement in an Operetta or Musical.