Berislav Klobučar

Berislav Klobučar (28 August 192413 June 2014) was a Croatian opera conductor. He conducted the Vienna State Opera for more than four decades, and guest conductor at the Bayreuth Festival. He started his career with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the Graz Opera in Austria, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Sweden, La Scala in Milan, Italy, the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice and the Opéra de Nice in France, and was a guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, United States. During his forty-year tenure at the Vienna State Opera that began in 1952, he conducted 53 operas in 1,133 performances.

Klobučar was conductor at the Bayreuth Festival in 1964 and 1967–69. 1964: Der Ring des Nibelungen 1967: Tannhäuser and Lohengrin 1968: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Tristan und Isolde 1969: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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 Royal Swedish Academy of Music 2010 Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria