Lidija Horvat-Dunjko (born 1967) is a Croatian soprano vocalist 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 .[1] [2] 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 , performing the song "Nostalgija ", which achieved success in the country at the time.
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.
Book
Ljuven sanak , a collection of seventy songs of Croatian composers from the 16th century to this day, published by Music Play, Zagreb, 2004
References
Participation Artists Songs Note: Entries scored out signify where Croatia did not compete
Countries Artists Songs
"Amen"
"Baunilha e chocolate "
"Dreamin' "
"Dvadeset prvi vijek "
"Fra Mols til Skagen "
"Il me donne rendez-vous "
"Keep Me in Mind"
"Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana "
"Love City Groove "
"Nocturne "
"Nostalgija "
"Núna "
"Pia prosefhi "
"Prisluhni mi "
"Sama "
"Se på mig "
"Sev! "
"Sti fotia "
"Új név egy régi ház falán "
"Verliebt in Dich "
"La Voix est libre "
"Vuelve conmigo "
"Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt "
International National Artists