On the occasion of the opera singer's 70th birthday, a video portrait of the artist was presented, produced by Studio MEG based on the idea and directorial design of Janez Megli\u010d. The screening was followed by an interview with the opera singer, conducted by Peter Bedjani\u010d.<\/p>\n
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Bassist Zdravko Kova\u010d<\/strong> was born on September 24, 1929 in Ljubljana. After matriculation, he completed private solo studies with prof. Ksenia Ku\u0161ej Novak. Even as a child, he performed on the stage of the Ljubljana Opera House in youth plays, operettas and operas. The first major role he sang at the Ljubljana Opera House after finishing his studies was the role of Monterono in Verdi's Rigoletto. With him, the Ljubljana Opera gained a high lyrical bassist with a large vocal range, musicality, a good memory and an unusually large voice: two octaves and a solid fifth on top of that. He could sing the lowest bass as well as the highest baritone roles. Zdravko Kova\u010d showed his extraordinary vocal range at the very beginning of his career, when he sang the short but very demanding role of the Scythian king Toas in Gluck's opera Iphigenia na Taurida. During the thirty years of his artistic activity, Zdravko Kova\u010d sang a large number of demanding bass roles, among which we can mention the merman in Rusalka, Mephisto in Faust, Philip II. in Don Carlos, Prince Gremin in Prince Igor, Dosife in Hovan\u0161\u010dina, the magician Chelia in the opera Zaljuben ve three oranges, Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Banquo in Macbeth, Canciana in The Four Roughnecks, Taos in Iphigenia on Taurida, the king in Lohengrin and all four the bass parts in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, the king in Aida. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At a singing competition in Geneva in 1954, Zdravko Kova\u010d received a diploma. He toured most of the opera theaters of the former Yugoslavia and was one of the leading Yugoslav oratorio bassists; he sang a large number of demanding and weighty bass operatic roles. He performed at home and abroad and conquered the audience with his musicality and sense of stage design, as well as with his imposing stage presence. He established himself as a soloist in oratorios in Haydn's Seasons, and then in Zagreb in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted by Friedrich Zaun, then head of the Zagreb Philharmonic. This success earned Kova\u010d an invitation to Vienna, where he sang in Bach's Matthew Passion under the direction of the legendary conductor Karl B\u00f6hm. He also participated in the opening of the New Festival Theater in Salzburg. Some recordings are kept by RTV Slovenia (Hoffman's Tales, Canciano in \u0160tireh Grobijane). He recorded the title role in Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Tsar Sultan for Philips in Zagreb. He retired in 1983. He celebrated his seventieth birthday in good health, but after two years he succumbed to a rapidly progressing illness and died on July 28, 2001 in Rijeka. Zdravko Kova\u010d belongs to that brilliant generation of singers of the Ljubljana opera, in which, besides him, there were also Sonja Ho\u010devar, Sonja Draksler, Cvetka Ahlin, Ga\u0161per Dermota and a little later Zlata Ognjanovi\u0107 and Bozena Glavak.\u00a0<\/em>Primo\u017e Kurent: One Hundred Slovenian Opera Stars, Calendar Collection, Pre\u0161ernova dru\u017eba dd; Ljubljana, 2005<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ob 70 letnici opernega pevca je bil predstavljen umetnikov video portret, ki je nastal v produkciji Studia MEG po ideji ter re\u017eiserski zasnovi Janeza Megli\u010da. Projekciji je sledil razgovor z opernim pevcem, ki ga je vodil Peter Bedjani\u010d. Basist Zdravko Kova\u010d se je rodil 24. septembra 1929 v Ljubljani. Po maturi je zasebno do\u0161tudiral …<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7785,"template":"","categories":[416],"tags":[25],"izpostavljamo":[],"letnik":[253],"tip":[420],"vrsta-razstave":[],"class_list":["post-7784","dogodki","type-dogodki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dogodki","tag-opera","letnik-253","tip-predstavitev"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n