Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak as DESDEMONA in the opera OTELLO

Photo by T Košir

At the invitation of Placido Domingo, Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak made her debut at Washington National Opera as Mimi in La Bohéme and she later returned as Liù in Turandot. Ms. Cvilak has appeared in Turandot at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Finnish National Opera Helsinki and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Singapore and has held the roles of Nedda in I Pagliacci in Slovenia, Marie in Schubert's oratorio Lazarus at the MDR Musiksommer 2003 and Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Savonlinna Festival in 2004 and in 2005. In the season 2004/05 she became Karajan-demy and member of the Vienna State Opera and has since performed in Macbeth, Die Zauberflöte, Aladin, L'Elisir d'Amore, Le Nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Daphne, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. Ms. Cvilak has also sung in Carmen at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Orchestre National de Belgique and her concert performances include Mozart's Il Re Pastore at Klangbogen festival 2004, Wagner's Parsifal in Monaco, Verdi's Quatri Pezzi Sacri in Alte Oper Frankfurt and appearances in Dresden, Beograd and Bratislava.    

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887.

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