Name Lidija Horvat-Dunjko Role Musical performer | Albums Lamenti | |
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Nominations Porin Award for Best Production of Classical Music Album Similar People Mladen Tarbuk, Darko Petrinjak, Edin Karamazov | ||
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Lidija Horvat-Dunjko (born 1967) is a soprano from Croatia and a Docent at the Zagreb Academy of Music. She was awarded the highest Croatian national decoration for her achievement in culture, the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić. Her opera roles include The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Gilda in Rigoletto. Along with Magazin, she finished sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995.
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Career
Born in Varaždin, she graduated in the class of professor Zdenka Žabčić–Hesky at the University of Zagreb, where she now teaches.
She played the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute; Marie, a vivandière in La fille du régiment; Rosina in The Barber of Seville; Gilda in Rigoletto; Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and created more than thirty successful opera roles in Croatia as well as abroad. She has performed in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Vienna (Musikverein), Toronto (Ryerson Theatre, Massey Hall), Berlin, Munich, Brussels, Dublin, Salzburg, Turin, Venice, Zürich, Geneva, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón, Teatro Nacional Cervantes), Madrid, Santiago de Chile, Lisbon, Montevideo, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory), Johannesburg, Pretoria.
She cooperates with greatest names in opera of today as well as most eminent directors and orchestras. Horvat-Dunjko founded the Opera School of Mirula in 2003, in conjunction with the International Summer Music School Pučišća, on the island of Brač.
Together with the group Magazin, she performed the song "Nostalgija" for Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 and finished 6th in a field of 23 entries.