Dunja Vejzović
Croatian mezzosoprano (1943-)
Dunja Vejzović (pronounced [dûɲa v̞ɛ̂jzɔv̞it͡ɕ]; born 20 October 1943) is a Croatian operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano.
Biography
Dunja Crnković was born in Zagreb and was married in 1963, changing her surname to Vejzović. She studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music, where she sang The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel in 1968. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, debuting in 1970 as Ariel in Stjepan Šulek's Oluja (The Tempest).
From 1971 to 1978, Vejzović was a member of the Nuremberg Opera, where she appeared in many operas, including principal roles in Orfeo ed Euridice, Carmen, Tannhäuser (as Venus), Intolleranza, Die Soldaten (as Charlotte), Dido and Æneas, Elektra (as Klytemnästra), Il trovatore (as Azucena, directed by Hans Neuenfels in his operatic debut), Boris Godunov (as Marina Mnichek), Wozzeck (as Marie), Aïda (as Amneris), Lulu (as the Countess Geschwitz), and Samson et Dalila. Among her teachers were Iris Adami Corradetti and Gina Cigna.
Her international career began in 1978, at the Bayreuth Festival, where she sang Kundry in Parsifal, for three summers. On 9 October 1978 Vejzović made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Tannhäuser, as Venus, opposite Jess Thomas in the name part, with James Levine conducting.
In 1980 and 1981, Herbert von Karajan engaged her to appear in his Salzburg Easter Festival Parsifal, which was reckoned a great success. In 1984, she sang Ortrud, in Lohengrin, for that Festival.
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