Dušan Jarjabek

Jarjabek studied signing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, graduating in 1976. Afterward, he spent one year at the Teatro del Parco in Palermo.

In1980–1991 he was a singer at the New Scene theater. In 1996–1998 he was the director of the New Scene.^[1] Since 1985 he has been a singer at the Slovak National Theater Opera ensemble.

In addition to performing, Jarjabek has taught singing at the Academy of Performing Arts since 1988.^[1]

Jarjabek was elected an MP of the National Council in 1998 on the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia list, which he joined to express his support for the nationalistic policies of Vladimír Mečiar.^[2] In 2005 he left the party and joined the Direction – Slovak Social Democracy over his dissatisfaction with what he perceived as tolerance of the government.^[3]