Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a

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. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar. Born in Zagorje ob Savi,

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, she studied to be a

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, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the

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-born Austrian conductor

Carlos Kleiber Carlos Luis Bonifacio Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was an Austrian conductor who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. Early life Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Bonifacius Kleiber in Berlin in 1930, the ...

. In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie ''Ples čarovnic'' (Dance of The Witches), a

Triglav Film ''Triglav Film'' is a Slovenian film studio based in Ljubljana. Established in 1947, it is the second studio founded in post-World War II Yugoslavia. It is named after Triglav Triglav (; german: Terglau; it, Tricorno), with an elevation of , ...

production in

. The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the ''Ples čarovnic'' symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia and

Pino Mlakar Pino Mlakar () (2 March 1907, Novo Mesto – 30 September 2006) was a Slovenian ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. He was born in Novo Mesto. In 1927 he graduated from the Rudolf Laban Choreographic Institute in Hamburg. He was ...

. Brezovar is buried together with Carlos Kleiber in the

n village of Konjšica near

Litija Litija (; german: Littai''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 90, 92–93.) is a town in the Litija Basin in central Slovenia. It is the ...

."Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" ''Current Biography Yearbook'' 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650; She was survived by a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.

References

External links

"Stanislava Brezovar Kleiber"
brief biography from her hometown webpage in

; Slovenian ballerinas 1937 births 2003 deaths People from Zagorje ob Savi {{Slovenia-bio-stub