Mirjana Bohanec
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Mirjana Bohanec-Vidović is a Croatian opera
tic soprano
. She studied singing at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
and with Emmy Loose
in Vienna. She made her professional opera debut in 1966 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, remaining there as a resident artist for two years. From 1968-1969 she was committed to the Vienna Volksoper
. She returned to the Croatian National Opera in 1970 where she remained for the rest of her career. Her repertoire mainly consisted of soubrette
and lyric coloratura soprano roles, including Adina in Gaetano Donizetti
's L'elisir d'amore
, Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo
's Pagliacci
, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale
, Oscar in Giuseppe Verdi
's Un ballo in maschera
, Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
's The Marriage of Figaro
, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata
, and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni
. She is married to Dr. Ivo Vidović, director of home health in Runjanin street in Zagreb.
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
. She studied singing at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
The Academy of Music is a Croatian music school based in Zagreb. It is one of the three art academies affiliated with the University of Zagreb, along with the Academy of Dramatic Art and the Academy of Fine Arts....
and with Emmy Loose
Emmy Loose
Emmy Loose was an Austrian operatic soprano of Czech birth, particularly associated with soubrette roles....
in Vienna. She made her professional opera debut in 1966 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, remaining there as a resident artist for two years. From 1968-1969 she was committed to the Vienna Volksoper
Vienna Volksoper
The Vienna Volksoper is a major opera house in Vienna, Austria. It gives about three hundred performances of twenty-five productions during an annual season running from September through June....
. She returned to the Croatian National Opera in 1970 where she remained for the rest of her career. Her repertoire mainly consisted of soubrette
Soubrette
A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".-Theater:...
and lyric coloratura soprano roles, including Adina in Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
's L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...
, Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His two-act work Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the repertory, appearing as number 20 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.-Biography:...
's Pagliacci
Pagliacci
Pagliacci , sometimes incorrectly rendered with a definite article as I Pagliacci, is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe...
, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian language libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio ....
, Oscar in Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera
Un ballo in maschera , is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden...
, Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
's The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata
La traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...
, and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
. She is married to Dr. Ivo Vidović, director of home health in Runjanin street in Zagreb.
Movies
- "Putovanje u Vučjak", as a Šolcova (1986)
- "Živi bili pa vidjeli", as a mrs Klarić (1979)
- "Skakavac", (1975)
- "Živjeti od ljubavi", as a Vanda (1973)
- "Tko pjeva zlo ne misliTko pjeva zlo ne misliOne Song a Day Takes Mischief Away is a 1970 Croatian film. Its original title is Tko pjeva zlo ne misli, which means "He Who Sings Means No Harm"...
", as a Ana Šafranek (1970) - "Tri sata za ljubav", (1968)