conductor Ivan Repušić
Ivan Repušić studied conducting at the Zagreb Academy of Music with Igor Gjadrov and Vjekoslav Šutej and improved his skill with the renowned conductors Kazushi Ono, Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti.
He has conducted almost all major Croatian orchestras including the Zagreb Philharmonic (Japan Tour, Concert in Musikverein Concert Hall in Vienna) and the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, as well as many international ones such as the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover State Opera Orchestra, the Thüringen Philharmonic, the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra.
From the autumn of 2002 he served as Conductor and from 2006 – 2008 as Director of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre of Split, and from 2006 – 2009 as Music Director of the Split Summer Festival, wherein he made a number of successful operatic and ballet performances (Aida, Don Carlos, Faust, Simon Boccanegra, La Boheme, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Manon Lescaut, Lucia di Lammermoor, Nabucco, Eugene Onegin, The Barber of Seville, the Elixir of Love...).
Ivan Repušić has performed at the Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb (La Traviata, Nabucco, The Troubadour) and at the Ivan von Zajc Croatian National Theatre of Rijeka (Madama Butterfly).
From 2005 he has been Chief Conductor of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra and from the season 2010/2011 1.Kapellmeister at the Hanover State Opera where he has conducted a large number of operas (Falstaff, Otello, La Boheme, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto). In the season 2011/2012 he will conduct new production of The Barber of Seville, Faust and Tannhäuser.
In May 2011 he made his Deutsche Oper Berlin debut conducting G. Puccini's La Boheme and G. Verdi's Macbeth, and in September 2011 debuted at the Komische Oper of Berlin with Verdi's Rigoletto.
In 2009 Ivan Repušić was appointed Music Director of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
He is a senior lecturer at the Split University Academy of Arts.