Debut of Slovene Soprano Bernarda Bobro at London's Covent Garden

On Monday, 23 January 2012, Bernarda Bobro replaced the soprano Ermonela Jaho in the lead role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata in Covent Garden. She had already sung this role, which is one of the most demanding roles in the soprano repertoire, in Stuttgart, where she also replaced the Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho.

Soprano Bernarda Bobro is being increasingly recognized in the world of opera. She was born in Maribor, Slovenia, where she first began with singing lessons. She completed studies at the University of Music in Graz and then signed a contract with the Klagenfurt Opera. For five years she was a member of the Vienna Volksoper and has since been engaged to sing in various European theatres and festivals, among them in 2003 at the Bregenz Festival, in 2005 in Dresden and the Hamburg State Opera, in 2006 at the Salzburg Festival and in Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, in 2007 in Lille's Opera House and the Estonian National Opera. She also performed in the play The Infernal Comedy with John Malkovich and sang in the Paris Garnier Opera, in Turin, at the Baden-Baden Festival Theatre, at the Glyndebourne Festival and at the Viennese Music Association with conductor Nicolaus Harnoncourt.