Zagreb Opera Festival
We had the youngest tenor in the world!
The charismatic Krunoslav Cigoj (1946 - 2015) is still remembered by many, and now even those who know little about his artistic and life path can get to know him. On Thursday, September 19 in the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb, a monograph will be presented about this versatile man, singer, director, diplomat and humanitarian, who left us too soon after a long and serious illness.
He made his debut at the age of 21, and the schooling started in Vienna was interrupted by the managerial machinery and he became a mega popular star in Germany and Austria. He sings in the Vienna Volksoper, but records and sells hits and canzones in huge numbers. He is expected to have a great career that will take him to Carnegie Hall and the Philadelphia Opera. The Metropolitan is also interested in the Croatian tenor, but the malignant disease is faster, and he continues to perform almost 30 years after treatment.
At the CNT in Zagreb, he sings a number of unforgettable characters: Alfredo, Cavaradossi, Rodolfo, don Jose, Pollione, Macduff, Hoffmann, Juranić... and in Split, Gabriele Adorno and the unforgettable Boito's Nerone. He sings concerts, directs, during the Homeland War humanitarian aid to Sarajevo and Osijek, and after the war he went to Sarajevo as cultural attache. Sarajevo-based vocal artist and writer Jasmin Bašić writes about all this and much more in a comprehensive monograph that will now, thanks to the distribution of Školska knjiga, also be promoted in Zagreb.
