Baritone

Schaunard

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Ivo Kovrigar, a young and versatile baritone born in Vienna, has built up a broad repertoire throughout his career to date, ranging from the Baroque to the modern era.

After studying voice in Vienna, he joined the ensemble of the Musikalische Komödie at the Leipzig Opera for the 2023–24 season. There, he sang, among other roles, Tsar Peter I in The Tsar and the Carpenter, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and the title role in Albert Lortzing’s Hans Sachs. Since the fall of 2025, he has been working as a freelance singer, based in Vienna.

In various operas and operettas that have shaped his artistic career to date, he has appeared in diverse roles at festivals and theaters, such as the Vienna Volksoper, the Operklosterneuburg Summer Festival, the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl, the Landestheater Neustrelitz, the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, and others. In Leipzig, he also had the opportunity to expand his repertoire in the field of musical theater, thereby further honing his acting and artistic skills.

His most notable roles include: Tsar Peter I (“The Tsar and the Carpenter”), Figaro (“The Barber of Seville”), Hans Sachs (“Hans Sachs”), Marcello and Schaunard (“La Bohème”), Harlequin (“Ariadne auf Naxos”), Mercutio (“Romeo et Juliette”), Dr. Falke (“Die Fledermaus”), Figaro (“Le nozze di Figaro”), Papageno (“The Magic Flute”), and Ben (“The Telephone”).