Dunja Vejzović

Dunja Vejzović (pronounced [dûɲa v̞ɛ̂jzɔv̞it͡ɕ]; born 20 October 1943, Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia) is an operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano from Croatia.

Biography

Dunja Crnković was born in

Her international career began in 1978, at the Bayreuth Festival, where she enacted 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,

Another of her great collaborations has been with the director Robert Wilson, in whose productions she sang the title role of Alceste (conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, 1986–87), and in Parsifal (1991 and 1992).

Vejzović has also appeared in Monte-Carlo (Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, 1979), Berlin, Carnegie Hall (the Verdi Requiem, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1982), Barcelona (Hérodiade, opposite Montserrat Caballé and José Carreras, 1983), Paris (Médée, 1986), Teatro Colón (Kundry, 1986), Vienna (Wozzeck, under Claudio Abbado, 1987; Lohengrin, with Plácido Domingo, 1990), and Houston (Parsifal and Lohengrin, 1992).

Also in her repertoire are

In 2002 she bid farewell to the stage, as Charlotte in Werther, at Zagreb, with Francisco Araiza in the name part.

She has twice won the Prix Fondation Fanny Heldy, for her recordings of Kundry and Ortrud. As of 2009, Mme Vejzović is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik, in Stuttgart.

In March 2014 Vejzović made a brief return to the stage, as the Grandmother Buryjovka, in Peter Konwitschny's production of Jenůfa, at Oper Graz.

Abridged Discography

• Wagner: Parsifal (Hofmann; Karajan, 1979–80) Deutsche Grammophon
• Wagner: Lohengrin (Tomowa-Sintow, Kollo; Karajan, 1976–81) EMI
• Berg: "Three Fragments from Wozzeck" (C.Kleiber, 1982) [live] Exclusive
• Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Hofmann, van Dam; Karajan, 1981–83) EMI
• Mercadante: La vestale (Cécchele; Šutej, 1987) [live] Bongiovanni
• Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre (Eschenbach, 1988) Supraphon
• Krenek: Orpheus und Eurydice (Hamilton; Steinberg, 1990) [live] Orfeo
• Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (Eschenbach, 1992) Virgin Classics

Abridged Videography

• Puccini: Suor Angelica (Plowright; Gavazzeni, Bussotti, 1983) [live] Kultur
• Wagner: Lohengrin (Studer, Domingo; Abbado, Weber, 1990) [live]
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References

• Documenta Dunja Vejzović, VERO Vision, 2003 [with companion Compact Disc of performances from 1966 to 2002].
  ISBN 953-97687-3-X
• "Hrvatski operni pjevači 1945-2002".
  ISSN 1330-2787
  . Retrieved 2015-01-11.