She released her debut album
Magenta in 2017 and later received an award, given out by the Slovenian cultural and artistic association for achievements in Slovenian popular music Zlata piščal in the category record of the year. At the end of 2019, she performed at numerous high-profile events, including as a soloist with the
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Big Band, the Slovenian Baroque Orchestra and the Slovenian Police Orchestra. In February 2020, she performed with her original composition
Ti with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra at the
Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet, under the baton and adaptation of Matija Krečič. On 11 September 2021, she performed the song
Volkovi at the
Popevka 21 festival, with which she won the Grand Audience Award causing her song to receive the title
Popevka 2021. In 2021 she also finished her master's degree in the Ljubljana's Academy of Music, majoring in opera - solo singing.
Opera In 2019 she dedicated herself to artistic development as an opera singer and in December 2019 she sang in the world's first tamburitza opera,
Ambrož and Katarina. She is a scholarship holder of the Berlin Opera Academy. Her role
Hänsl in Engelbert
Humperdinck's opera
Hänsel und Gretel was set to premiere in the summer of 2020, but it has been postponed to the summer of 2022 due to a new coronavirus pandemic. In June 2021, she sang the role of
Old Lady in
Leonard Bernstein's opera
Candide at the Cankar Centre. In April 2021, she received first prize and third place at the IMMCC 2020 International Singing Competition. On June 28, 2021, she received her master's degree with a singing recital and a master's essay entitled
The Role of Agrippina in
George Frideric Handel's opera of the same name. For her outstanding artistic achievements she received the
Prešeren Prize for Students presented by the Academy of Music. In August 2021, she performed in the role of
Rosina at concert performances of
Gioachino Rossini's
The Barber of Seville under the direction of maestro
George Pehlivanian. In October 2021, together with soprano Pia Brodnik, tenor Gregor Ravnik and pianist Andreja Kosmač, she performed a concert as part of the Studenec Summer Festival entitled
Jesenska pesem (Autumn Song). Earlier, she performed twice as part of baroque music concerts with the Slovenian Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Egon Mihajlović and concert master Monika Toth. At the end of October 2021, accompanied by Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra, she sang at an opera aria concert at the Astra Theater in Malta, conducted by
José Cura. In April 2022, she sang the title role in Handel's opera
Agrippina at the Cankar Center under the artistic direction of Egon Mihajlović and directed by Rocc. In the same month she also sang at the closing concert of the
Opernfest Prague at the Vinohrady Theater in Prague, under the direction of the artistic director of the Prague Opera, maestro Jaroslav Kyzlink. A week later, she sang with the Albanian Opera Orchestra in Tirana at the
Marie Kraja Opera Festival, under the baton of maestro Martin Andrea. In 2022, she began studying the role of
Carmen as part of a concert performance of the opera under the direction of maestro George Pehlivanian. That same year, she made her debut at the
Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana in the show 'Orpheus in the Underworld' (playing the role of Public Opinion), and in 2023, she portrayed Larina in the play 'Eugene Onegin'. As part of her studies she performed
Mozart's Spatzenmesse and
Vivaldi's Gloria in D major in the
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra as solo alto with the Baroque Orchestra of the Academy of Music in 2018. In the same year, she performed as a soloist at the Cankar Center with the Big Band of the Academy of Music, under the baton of Matej Hotko. In 2019, she sang the role of Iztok Kocen's mini-opera doctor
Nepotrebna (Unnecessary), which premiered in Budapest. The mini-opera was presented in Brno and Ljubljana. Since the beginning of her music education, she has regularly attended seminars by renowned musicians such as José Cura, Bernarda Fink, Vlatka Orašanić and JD Walker. In 2022, she presented a new electro-opera concert project, in which she combined classical opera arias with electronic pop. Part of this project, entitled
Doloroso, was presented at a sold-out concert on March 8, 2022, at the
Cankar Centre. She returned to the
Popevka festival in 2023 as a hostess, and together with her co-host Helena Blagne, she introduced her new song "Ikona". With it, she announced the release of the EP
Sirene. Her Eurovision 2024 song "
Veronika" is included in the album.
Eurovision Raiven participated in the national final
Evrovizijska Melodija (
EMA), the selection process for
Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Črno bel", placing second. Raiven returned to
EMA in
2017, placing third with the song "Zažarim", and again in
2019 with the song "Kaos", placing second. In December 2023, it was announced that Raiven would finally
represent Slovenia in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "
Veronika". She qualified for the Grand Final on 7 May 2024 from the first semi-final. In the Grand Final on 11 May, "Veronika" placed 23rd out of 25 with 27 points (15 from the professional juries and 12 from the televoting).
Theater In 2018, she also performed on theatrical boards in the play
Trojanke, produced by the Slovenian National Theatre Nova Gorica, where she portrayed the character of Cassandra. The work in the new translation by Jere Ivanc was directed by Jaša Koceli. In 2021, she accepted the main role of Urška in the musical
Povodni mož (
The Water Man). == Discography ==