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Pavla Lovše

(January 13, 1891 - June 22, 1964)

Pavle Lovša Bole was born on 13 January 1891 in Ljubljana. She studied singing with Matej Hubad for five years, later taking private lessons from distinguished teachers in Rijeka, Vienna and Milan. She was a highly regarded recitalist and concert/oratorio singer, regularly appearing as a soloist at the Glasbena Matica concerts. In her recital programs, she more often than not included Slovenian folk and art songs. Several songs were composed for her and performed by her for the first time. With the pianist Dana Kobler Golia, they performed all over Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. She was a soloist at the Ljubljana Opera, where she performed in more than twenty lyric soprano and coloratura roles in 1921-27. She was the first to create two roles in Slovenian operas - Jerica in Gerbič's opera Nabor (1925) and Tajda in Hugolin Sattner's opera of the same name (1927). In 1928, she went on tour to the United States, where she sang Slovene songs, and on her return introduced the Slovene audience to American songs (including black spiritual and Native American songs), which she sang both in Slovene translation and in English. As a pedagogue, she raised several later established concert and opera singers. She died on 22 June 1964 in Ljubljana.

some significant roles:

a selection of recordings

Josip Pavčič / Ivan Robida

Pastirica - The Shepherdess

Zvezda - A Star
Premenba - Transformation
(two songs)

Škrjanček poje - The Lark Sings
Ptičke po zraku letajo - Birds Fly In The Air
(two folk songs)

a selection of photographs

A postcard of Pavla Lovše as Rosalinde (J.Strauss: Fledermaus), season 1924/25

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A portrait of Pavla Lovše ca. 1910

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MLA: Pavla Lovše (1891-1964). 1920-1940. <http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:IMG-1S2M8XJN>

A portrait of Pavla Lovše from the 1920s.

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MLA: Pavla Lovše (1891-1964). 1920-1930. <http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:IMG-IV0KZ384>

Pavla Lovše in an operatic role, season 1922/23

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MLA: Pavla Lovše (1891-1964). 1922-1923. <http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:IMG-THNRJ4W2>

Pavla Lovše's American songs recital playbill. The concert took place on November 16, 1929, at the Maribor National Theatre

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MLA: Amerikanski koncert gospe Pavle Lovšetove. SNG Maribor, 16.11.1929. <http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:img-YUGNQL8H>

A portrait of Pavla Lovše with her daughter Majda

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MLA:Pavla Lovše (1891-1964). 1920-1940. <http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:IMG-V7JU0196>

sources / links for further reading