Berislav Klobučar (28 August 192413 June 2014) was a Croatian opera conductor. He conducted the Vienna State Opera for more than four decades, and was multiple times a guest conductor at the Bayreuth Festival.
Biography Born in Zagreb on 28 August 1924, Klobučar was a student of conductor Lovro von Matačić. He began his career with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted the Graz Opera in Austria, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Teatro alla Scala orchestra in Milan, the 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 1133 performances.
Klobučar was conductor at the Bayreuth Festival in 1964 and 1967–69: 1964: Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen 1967: Wagner, Tannhäuser and Lohengrin 1968: Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Tristan und Isolde 1969: Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Death Klobučar died in Vienna, Austria, on 13 June 2014, at the age of 89.
Awards Joseph Marx–Musikpreis des Landes Steiermark, 1967 Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star Honorary member Vienna State Opera, 1992 Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, 2010
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