Barbara Karolyi-Czar

Barbara Karolyi-Czar is a Viennese dancer, singer and actress. She trained in classical ballet at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera and at the Theater an der Wien, studied acting with Susi Nicoletti and Ariane Calix-Hollaender and voice with Andrea Mellis and Carol Mayo, and in 1982 joined the ballet of the Vienna State Opera, where she danced the classical repertoire including Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. She went on to appear at the Theater an der Wien, the Raimundtheater, the Ronacher and the Volksoper Wien, as well as in Stuttgart and Wiesbaden, and as a soloist soprano sang with the Mozartbanden and at the Wiener Festwochen. Since 1995 she has taught ballet, jazz dance, acting and musical theatre in Vienna and Lower Austria.