Berislav Klobučar (28 August 192413 June 2014) was a Croatian opera conductor. He conducted the

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for more than four decades, and guest conductor at the

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Biography

Born in Zagreb on 28 August 1924, Klobučar was a student of conductor

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. He started his career with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the Graz Opera in Austria, the

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in Stockholm, Sweden,

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in Milan, Italy, the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice and the Opéra de Nice in France, and was a guest conductor at the

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in New York, United States. During his forty-year tenure at the

that began in 1952, he conducted 53 operas in 1,133 performances.

Death

Berislav Klobučar died in Vienna, Austria on 13 June 2014 at the age of 89.

Awards

* 1967 Joseph Marx–Musikpreis des Landes Steiermark * Honorary member of the

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* Commander of the Royal

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* 1992 Honorary member

* 2010 Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria

Bayreuth Festival

Klobučar was conductor at the

in 1964 and 1967–69. * 1964: ''

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'' * 1967: ''

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'' and ''

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'' * 1968: ''

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...

'' and ''

Tristan und Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance ''Tristan and Iseult'' by Gottfried von Stras ...

'' * 1969: ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''

References

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