Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian

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. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar. Born in Zagorje ob Savi,

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, she studied to be a

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, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the

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-born Austrian

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Carlos Kleiber Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian conductor, who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. The son of the conductor Erich Kleiber, he was particularly known for the Romantic rep ...

. In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie ''Ples čarovnic'' (Dance of The Witches), a Triglav Film production in Slovenian. The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the ''Ples čarovnic'' symphonic poem by

Blaž Arnič Blaž Arnič (31 January 1901 – 1 February 1970) was a Slovenian symphonic composer. Born in Luče, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Arnič grew up on an isolated farmstead near Mount Raduha in the Kamnik Alps. He taught himself how to pla ...

with choreography by Pia and Pino Mlakar. Brezovar is buried together with Carlos Kleiber in the

n village of

Konjšica Konjšica (; in older sources also ''Košica'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 94. ) is a settlement in the hills on the right bank o ...

near

Litija Litija (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 90, 92–93.) is a town in the Litija Basin in central Slovenia. It is the seat of the Mu ...

."Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" ''Current Biography Yearbook'' 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650;

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"Stanislava Brezovar Kleiber"
brief biography from her hometown webpage in Slovenian; Slovenian ballerinas 1937 births 2003 deaths People from Zagorje ob Savi {{Slovenia-bio-stub