Alenka Gotar
Country	Slovenia
Years active	2000–present
Genres	Opera, Pop music

Alenka Gotar is a Slovene soprano singer, born in Ljubljana. With the song ‘’Cvet z juga’’ (“Flower of the South”), she will represent Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Image File history File linksMetadata Slovenia2007europromo. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ... Look up soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ...   (IPA: ) is the capital and largest city in Slovenia. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 will be the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland on May 10 (for the semi-final) and May 12 (for the final). ... Founded 1550 Country Finland Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ...

Biography

Alenka Gotar began her musical interest by attending a small music school where she learned piano and guitar. Afterwards she attended music and ballet school in Ljubljana, where Markos Bajuk taught her solo singing. After graduating in 1996, she applied to study singing at the Musical Academy in Basel, Switzerland, and in 1999, she attended the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, where she was taught by Professor Lilijan Sukis. Alenka gained her diploma in 2000. In Salzburg, she continued studies in singing and opera with Prof. Sukis, along with perfecting her craft in Rim with Maya Sunari-Biankini, and with Marjana Lipovšek and Alfred Burgstaller. She gained her Master’s degree in 2006. A grand piano, with the lid up. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as... In Salzburg, the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum Salzburg honors the Austrian citys most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Salzburg is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 150,000 in 2006). ... Look up rim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Marjana LipovÅ¡ek (mezzosoprano) is an opera and concert singer and actress. ...

Alenka Gotar is a guest in the Maribor Opera and as a soloist, she sings in the state theatres in Salzburg and Ljubljana. She toured with an orchestra and chamber choir in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, and Scandinavia. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to modern musical pieces. She also works as music teacher. Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. ...

On 4 February 2007, Alenka Gotar won EMA 2007, the Slovenian national selection for Eurovision 2007. In Helsinki, during the semi-final on 10 May 2007, Alenka will sing ‘’Cvet z juga’’, which is described as a fast rhythmic ballad combined with operatic vocals. The song was written and composed by Andrej Babić and arranged by Aleksandra Valenčić. EMA 2007 was the edition of the competition to decide the winner completely by televoting. After two semi-finals and a final, the Slovenian public had a choice between Alenka and Eva Černe. With 44,636 votes, Alenka was crowned the winner and given the right to represent Slovenia at Eurovision. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD (or CE) era. ... EMA 2007 will be the television show in which Slovenia selects its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD (or CE) era. ...

Opera Roles

From the summer of 2000, Alenka Gotar is a frequent guest in the SNG opera and ballet in Ljubljana, where she has sung in the following roles:

• Barbarina (The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart);
• Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni - Mozart);
• Rusalka (Rusalka - Dvorak);
• Hanna Glawary (The Merry Widow - Lehár);
• Pamina (The Magic Flute - Mozart/Schikaneder)
• Gran Sacerdotessa (Aida – Verdi).

In the 2004/2005 season, she performed the following roles: Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata (Trans: ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, Le mariage de Figaro (1784). ... Don Giovanni (K.527) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. ... Rusalka may refer to: Rusalkas, Slavic water nymphs. ... Dvořák is a common Czech surname (feminine form is Dvořáková). Spelling without diacritics is Dvorak. ... Australian ballet star Sir Robert Helpmann obtained permission from the Léhar Estate to create a ballet based on The Merry Widow operetta. ... Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 - 24 October 1948) was a Hungarian composer, mainly known for his operettas. ... Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, (en: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. ... Emanuel Schikaneder (Straubing, September 9, 1751 – September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, and singer. ... // Introduction This article is about the marketing term, AIDA. For other uses of the term, see Aida (disambiguation). ... VERDI is an acronym for the Italian unification movement, named after the composer Giuseppe Verdi (ardent supporter of the movement) VERDI stands for Vittorio Emmanuelle, Re D Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy) Categories: Historical stubs ...

• Brigitte (Iolanta - Tchaikovsky);
• Bubikopf (The Emperor of Atlantis – Ullmann)
• Kristine (Brata - Alojza Ajdiča)

In Salzburg she performed the following roles: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893 (N.S.); April 25, 1840 – October... Viktor Ullmann (b 1 January 1898 in Teschen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now divided between Cieszyn in Poland and Cesky Tesin in the Czech Republic; d 18 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was an Austrian/Czech composer, conductor and pianist. ...

• Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart);
• Pamina (The Magic Flute - Mozart);
• Arminda (La finta giardiniera - Mozart);
• Hyazintus (Apollo et Hyacinthus - Mozart)
• Mimi (La bohème - Puccini).

On the festival Europäische Musikmonat 2001 in Basel, she sang the soprano role in the opera "Skamander", by the Swiss composer Beata Gysina. In 2000, Alenka worked with the well known composer György Kurtag for the Swiss radio DRC3. La finta giardiniera, K. 196, is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Apollo et Hyacinthus is an opera, K.38, written in 1767 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time. ... La bohème[1] is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

See Also

• Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

Slovenia will be represented by Alenka Gotar in Eurovision. ...

Links

• Winning song from EMA 2007 - RTV SLO