SUMMARY
The theme of this work refers to the study of opera’s diva system or the way inwhich an opera diva can affect (or not) the development of repertory theater. The idea is thatthrough a variety of approaches – musicology, history, sociology – one finds those aspects thatare caused to develop the concept of an opera diva. The thesis from my starting point is thatthe West-European practice of the first half of the 19th century was recognized in the work ofthe Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade after its Golden period (1954–1969) when thesystem of the opera’s stars formed in Serbia. The goal of this work is to present a part of therepertoire policies of the National Theatre related to the possible impact of opera divas in theformation of the repertoire and vice versa.