Slovenian tenor Dušan Topolovec has been a regular member of the Maribor Opera since 1990, first as a member of the opera choir and since 2003 as a soloist. He studied voice at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Maribor.

During the establishment of the opera studio at Maribor Opera he made his debut in the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Since then he has appeared in numerous opera productions, most notably Turandot (Minister Pang), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Andrès, Spalanzani), Madama Butterfly (Goro, Prince Yamadori), La traviata (Gaston), The Queen of Spades (Tchekalinsky), Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos), Lakmé (Hadji), Carmen (Remendado), Tosca (Spoletta), Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein), Werther (Schmidt), Rigoletto (Borsa), Norma (Flavio), I due Foscari (Barbarigo), I Pagliacci (Peppe/Arlecchino), Dido and Aeneas (Sailor), La forza del destino (Trabuco), Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), Cui’s fairy-tale opera Puss in Boots (Jean, Marquis de Carabas), My Fair Lady (Liutenant Pickering) and many others.

He has also sung in many world premieres of operas by contemporary Slovenian composers, including Krog s kredo (A Chalk Circle) by Slavko Osterc, in the horror opera Pesnik in upornik (A Poet and a Rebel) by Tomaž Svete, Al’ pekel al’ nebo (Either Hell, or Heaven) by Aldo Kumar and in the fairy-tale opera Kdor upa, ne odneha (Whoever Hopes, Never Gives Up) by Vitja Avsec. He also performed as the jester Ecco in Kogoj’s opera Črne maske (Black Masks), and in the world premiere of Granatno jabolko (Pomegranate) by Tomaž Svete.

He toured with Maribor Opera in Portugal, Japan, Italy, and Taiwan.