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| | Lipovsek Marjana | | mezzosoprano |   
| Her father Marjan Lipovsek (born 1910) was rector of the Music Academy of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She studied music pedagogy there and in Graz. Her vocal talent was discovered by the mezzo-soprano Hilde Rössl-Majdan, and she received training in Graz from her, Herma Handl and Gottfried Hornik. She joined the opera studio of the Vienna Opera in 1978 and was accepted as a member of the company in 1979, when she enjoyed her first major success as Brangäne, again in Graz.In 1979 she participated in the premiere of Cerha's Baal at the Salzburg Festival. She has ben a member of the Hamburg Opera since 1981 (debut: Frederica in Verdi's Luisa Miller). Here she sang the role of Anna in the first local performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens (1982). In 1983 she signed a guest-contract with the Bavarian Staatsoper in Munich, where in 1987 her roles included Fricka. In 1988 she added Gaea in Daphne. She enjoyed great successes singing concerts and opera throughout Europe. In 1988 she sang Cornelia in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Vienna Opera. She undertook various assignments at the Salzburg Festival: the premiere of Penderecki's Die schwarze Maske (1986), the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten (1992), Ottavia in Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea (1993), Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff (1993), the Countess Geschwitz in Lulu (1995). She also participated in concert performances of Othmar Schoeck's opera Penthesilea (1982) and Gottfried von Einem's Dantons Tod (1983) plus Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1987) and Handel's Messiah (1988), all in addition to concerts and recitals. At the Bregenz Festival of 1988 she sang Saint-Saëns' Dalila, and at Munich's massive Olympic Stadium she sang Kontchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor in 1989. Guest engagements have taken her to Frankfurt (1986), the Maggio Musicale of Florence (1987) and the Savonlinna Festival (Amneris, 1989). For her debut at Covent Garden she sang Klytämnestra (1990). In 1991 she sang Dalila at the Bastille in Paris, followed a year later by the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the inauguration of the new opera house in Nagoya, Japan. In 1994 she sang Marina in Boris Godunov at the Easter Festival in Salzburg, returning as Klytämnestra in 1995. That year also found her cast as Kundry in Munich and as Fricka in Die Walküre in San Francisco. In 1996 she sang Fricka again, this time in Chicago, plus another Klytämnestra at the Maggio Musicale. Other roles in her repertory include Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Magdalene in Meistersinger, the Composer in Ariadne, Gluck's Orfeo and Marie in Wozzeck. In addition to her operatic work, she is a much admired concert singer equally at home in oratorios of Bach and Handel and in the rarefied Lied repertory. Recordings: Telefunken (Fledermaus), Philips (Faust, Spohr's Die Letzten Dinge), Ariola-Eurodisc (Gluck's Orfeo), Christophonus-Verlag (Kaiser Leopold of Austria's Il Lutto dell'Universo), Harmonia Mundi-HMV, HMV (Die Frau ohne Schatten, Rheingold), Schwann (Schoeck's Penthesilea), Orfeo, Intercord, RCA, Koch/Schwann (Samson et Dalila), EMI (Götterdämmerung), Sony (Boris Godunov), Teldec (Tristan und Isolde), Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella). |
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