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Sena Jurinac was born on October 24, 1921, in Travnik, Bosnia, then part of
Yugoslavia. Her father was Croatian; her mother, a major influence on her career,
Austrian. Jurinac’s teacher at the Zagreb Conservatory was Maria Kostrencic,
who had also taught Zinka Milanov. Jurinac made her opera debut in Zagreb, as
Mimì in La Bohème in 1942. Her international career coincided with the postwar
reopening of the Vienna Opera three years later. Her fateful assignment
Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro.
“It was Karl Böhm who engaged me for Vienna,” she says. “In my audition I sang
Pamina, Agathe and Elsa. Böhm wanted more. I offered Butterfly’s aria, although
I knew it only in Croatian. He was amused but hired me anyway.” This audition
was quite different from the one she had endured four months earlier in Munich
with Clemens Krauss. “Someone told me that he didn’t like singers who are very
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Sena Jurinac was born on October 24, 1921, in Travnik, Bosnia, then part of
Yugoslavia. Her father was Croatian; her mother, a major influence on her career,
Austrian. Jurinac’s teacher at the Zagreb Conservatory was Maria Kostrencic,
who had also taught Zinka Milanov. Jurinac made her opera debut in Zagreb, as
Mimì in La Bohème in 1942. Her international career coincided with the postwar
reopening of the Vienna Opera three years later. Her fateful assignment
Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro.
“It was Karl Böhm who engaged me for Vienna,” she says. “In my audition I sang
Pamina, Agathe and Elsa. Böhm wanted more. I offered Butterfly’s aria, although
I knew it only in Croatian. He was amused but hired me anyway.” This audition
was quite different from the one she had endured four months earlier in Munich
with Clemens Krauss. “Someone told me that he didn’t like singers who are very
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