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JUAN VASLE

Juan Vasle

Opera singer and journalist was born to Slovene parents in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he graduated from High Institute of art in Colón Theatre. As an opera and concert baritone singer he has appeared in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguai, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Kosovo, Czeck Republic, in Canada and Australia.
In 1988 he was a finalist at Lucciano Pavarotti International voice competition in Philadelphia, USA.
Having graduated also from the College of journalism in Buenos Aires, Juan Vasle worked for many magazines, among them for Mercado, an important Argentinian business magazine, at the same time he also reported on soccer for the newspaper Crónica. He was the founder and first editor of a music magazine Promúsica for several years. He reported a lot from different countries, and as a commmentator on classical music he co-operated in a show, awarded for the best spanish speaking show.
In Slovenia he co-operated with various orchestras, from 1990 he's been a bass soloist of Ljubljana's Opera house.
He published 4 CDs in Ljubljana:

- Slovenske pesmi (24 solo and popular songs)

Slovenske pesmi

- Slovenski samospevi XX. stoletja (44 solo songs of 29 composers) 

Slovenski samospevi XX.stoletja

- Sudamérica (24 folk and solo songs from South America)

Sudamérica

- Raduj človek moj (24 christmas songs)

Raduj človek moj

1993 he presented a book "Pevci so tudi ljudje" (Singers are people too) which brings collection of 24 interviews
with singers of world reputation.

Pevci so tudi ljudje

Besides music his great passion is footbal to which he dedicated his 2nd book, "Fuzbal, tango in polka" (Soccer, tango and polka, 2002). The book is full of south-american soccer stories that would be, as he said, difficult to write for someone who hasn't lived in South America. As an excellent footbal expert he has been writing articles about soccer for Delo, Slovenian newspaper, ever since moving to Slovenia.

Fuzbal, tango in polka

These days his newest book with title "Ustavite svet – mundial je tu!" (Stop the world – mundial is here!) appeared
on market. Dedicated to the soccer event of the year that is taking place right now in Germany, the book talks about
history of world cups.

Ustavite svet - mundial je tu!

Juan Vasle is pretty famous in Slovenia. He moved here from Argentina with his family 16 years ago because of invitation of Ljubljana's Opera house. He is constantly present at numerous concerts and recitals and besides his remarkable bas baritone opera roles he approached to Slovene audience also by performance together with Argentinian vocal quartett Opus Cuatro, which makes South-american music, tango and negro spirituals.

Opus cuatro

If you wish to know more details about Juan Vasle, click his webpage .

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