Soprano Sabina Cvilak will make her LA Opera debut as Micaela in Carmen during the 2008/09 season. She began the 2007/08 season with a triumphant debut as Mimi in La Bohème at Washington National Opera, where she will return next season in the role of Liu in Turandot. This season she also sings Nedda in Pagliacci and debuts as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the National Theater of Slovenia in Maribor. She performs concerts in Brussels and is conducted by Peter Schreier in Haydn's Creation in Lille. The young Slovenian soprano sang the First Lady in a new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Vienna Festwochen and 2006 Aix-en-Provence Festival. She also opened the 2006/07 season in this role at the Theater an der Wien and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. Further engagements of the season included a scenic version of Mozart's Requiem and her role debut as Marguerite in a new production of Gounod's Faust at Slovenian National Theatre Maribor. Marek Janowski invited her to sing two concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo (Wagner's Parsifal in concert in Monaco and Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces in Frankfurt).

Sabina Cvilak gained renown in the 2003/04 season, making successful back-to-back debuts at the Hamburg Staatsoper (Liu), the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki (Liu), the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste (Micaela), the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann) and at the Wiener Klangbogen (Aminta in Il Re Pastore). During the 2004/05 season she was awarded the Karajan scholarship in Vienna and became member of the Vienna Staatsoper, where she appeared as Woglinde in Das Rheingold (conducted by Simone Young), in Götterdämmerung (conducted by Peter Schneider), in Daphne (conducted by Semyon Bychkov) and in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte under Simon Keenlyside. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season the soprano made her role debut as Nedda in a concert performance of Pagliacci.

Her concert repertoire includes Bach's St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, St. Mark Passion, Christmas Oratorio and Magnificat, oratorios by Handel as well as masses by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Bruckner, Schubert's Lazarus and Mendelssohn's Messiah.

Sabina Cvilak was born in 1977 in Maribor/Slovenia. After graduating in 1996, she studied singing with Professor Annemarie Zeller and attended additional vocal courses with Kurt Widmer in Ljubljana. During her studies, Sabina Cvilak took part in several competitions and won numerous prizes. In 1996, she was one of the prize-holders at a contest for young musicians in Ljubljana, in 1999 she was among the finalists at the singing contest Otta Ondina in Maribor and won the promotion prize at the singing contest Ferruccio Tagliavini in 2000. She finished her vocal studies in June 2000, graduating with distinction.