Igor Durlovski

Igor Durlovski ( mk, Игор Дурловски, born 26 March 1977 in Bitola), is a Macedonian bass opera singer and politician.

Life and career

Durlovski was born in Bitola, SR Macedonia, part of SFR Yugoslavia, now North Macedonia, in 1977. He graduated from the Faculty of Music at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He made his debut in 1999 and from 2000 to 2002 sang with the Macedonian Opera and Ballet (now the in many productions including ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''Il trovatore'', ''Don Giovanni'', ''Turandot'', ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''La forza del destino'', ''Rigoletto'', and ''Aida''. He made his international debut at the Wiener Kammeroper in 2001 as Nonacourt in Nino Rota's ''Il cappello di paglia di Firenze''. That year he also began further voice study with mezzo-soprano and Kammersängerin Olivera Miljaković. He has sung in the Macedonian operas ''Lydia of Macedonia'' by and ''Tzar Samuil'' by Kiril Makedonski, and in 2003 the Association of Macedonian Composers awarded him the "Georgi Bozhikov Prize" for the best performance in a work by a Macedonian composer. He was also a laureate at the International "Jeunesses Musicales" competition in Belgrade. Since the 2009/2010 season he has appeared regularly at the Staatstheater Kassel.

On the concert platform Durlovski has appeared as a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Verdi and Mozart Requiems, Dimitrije Bužarovski's ''Radomir Psalter'', 's oratorio ''To Clement'', and Risto Avramovski's ''Winter'' symphony. He has sung with the Vienna Residence Orchestra, East-West Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and ALEA contemporary music ensemble.

He is married to opera singer , with whom he opens the Durlovski Opera Academy in 2019.

In 2020, it is announced that Igor Durlovski is Independent candidate list for VMRO-DPMNE in the fifth constituency, including Bitola, Ohrid, Prilep and Kicevo for the early parliamentary elections scheduled for 15 July 2020.

Storming of Macedonian Parliament

Durlovski was among the organizers of protests following the parliamentary election in December 2016. On 27 April 2017, the protesters stormed the as the new majority was electing the Assembly Speaker. In November, Durlovski was arrested, along with at least 30 people, under the charges of “terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order and security. The following day several hundred people, led by former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and other high-ranking VMRO DPMNE party members, protested in front of the Skopje Criminal Court demanding the immediate release of all who were detained. Since the arrest, there have been several formal and informal symbolic protests, in the Republic of Macedonia and abroad, organized primarily by Durlovski's colleagues and acquaintances, demanding his release from custody. On 15 March 2019 the Court jailed 16 people involved in the 2017 mob attack, and acquitted Igor Durlovski of all charges.

Sources

* National Opera and Ballet
Igor Durlovski - first soloist
* Staatstheater Kassel

References

External links

Performance schedule
on Operabase

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21st-century Macedonian male singers
Operatic basses
1977 births
People from Bitola
Living people
21st-century male opera singers
VMRO-DPMNE politicians
Members of the Assembly of North Macedonia