Highlights from Knezevic’s 1999 season include, Frosh in Die Fledermaus for Chicago Lyric Opera, Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) and Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Festival Opera, Walnut Creek, where he also sang Marcell (La Boheme) in 1998. Other credits in ’98 include, Benoit/Alcindoro (La Boheme) for Vancouver Opera; and a concert appearance as Narumovin Washington National Symphony’s concert version of Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich; as well as appearing in productions of Turandot, Manon, Peter Grimes and Betrothal in a Monastery for San Francisco Opera. He began his operatic career singing in major opera companies in the former Yugoslavia including Belgrade, Zagred and Ljubljana and also performed concerts in Greece, Romania and Belgium. His association with San Francisco Opera started in 1992 where he participated in their Merola Program, Western Opera Theater national tours and as a 1995 Alder Fellow. He has appeared with SFO since 1995 in many roles and covered numerous major roles during this period.