Domen Križaj
Domen Križaj (* 1989 in Kranj ) is a Slovenian opera singer with a baritone voice .
biography
Training and first appearances
Domen Križaj had been taking singing lessons since he was around 14 years old and was already enthusiastic about opera as a teenager. He studied medicine in Ljubljana and since 2012 singing with Matjaž Robavs at the music academy there. In 2013 he took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival. He gained his first stage experience in 2014 at the Ljubljana Music Academy in the role of Megotto in Niccolò Piccinni's La cecchina . From 2017 to 2019 he was a member of the Opera Studio at Theater Basel and performed in small and medium-sized roles in this context. In the 2019/2020 season he was a member of this house's ensemble. He introduced himself to the audience at the Frankfurt Opera with a recital in July 2020 and will be part of the ensemble there from the 2020/2021 season.
Opera roles and engagements (selection)
| Debut in | role | |
|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Eugene Onegin ( Eugene Onegin ) | Zomeropera Alden Biesen, Belgium |
| Oct. 2016 | Albert ( Werther ) | Croatian National Theater Ivan pl. Zajca, Rijeka |
| March 2019 | Consul Sharpless ( Madama Butterfly ) | Theater Basel |
| Dec 2019 | Marcello ( La Bohème ) | Theater Basel |
Prizes and awards
- 1st prize in the younger category at the international singing competition "Ferruccio Tagliavini" in Deutschlandsberg (2012)
- 1st prize at the International Petar Konjović Competition in Belgrade (2012)
- 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the International Otto Edelmann Competition in Vienna (2015)
- 1st prize at the Ada Sari International Vocal Art Competition in Nowy Sącz (2017)
- 2nd prize at the NEUE STIMMEN international singing competition of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh (2019)
Web links
- Domen Križaj at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Profile at Theater Basel
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biography of Domen Križaj. In: Salzburg Festival Archive. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Marco Stücklin: Domen Križaj in an interview with OPERNMAGAZIN. In: The Opera Magazine. December 7, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
- ↑ La Cecchina ali Nikogaršnja hči, Celje (complete recording with Domen Križaj as Mengotto). Video document on Youtube, March 26, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2019 (Slovenian).
- ↑ Bernhard Uske: Recital: The knight of the cheerful figure. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 3, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Marija Barbieri: Opera o mladima s mladima (youth opera with youth). In: klasika.hr. October 7, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2019 (Croatian).
- ↑ Georg Rudiger: Urgency that remains until the end - Puccini's “Madame Butterfly” at the Basel Theater. In: nmz online. April 2, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Siegbert Kopp: How nice that would be: Christmas without sentimental kitsch. Theater Basel shows how it's done. In: Südkurier. December 16, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
- ↑ International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition - Vienna, 2015. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
- ^ Slovenians triumphant at Polish singing competition. In: Radio Poland. May 22, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Ines Koring, Hendrik Baumann: Anna El-Khashem and Long Long win NEW STIMMEN 2019. Bertelsmann Stiftung, October 27, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Križaj, Domen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian opera singer with a baritone voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kranj |