Tamara Ivaniš, born in Croatia in 1994, began her vocal studies at the age of 17 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she graduated in the summer of 2016 with Prof. Karlheinz Hanser.
The young soprano won several international competitions: in 2009 she won the 1st prize at the Dubrovnik State Competition. In 2010 she won another 1st prize and the jury prize at the 12th International Competition “Iuventus canti” in Vrable/Slovakia. In 2013 she was a finalist at the 1st International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna. In 2014 she won various prizes at the international Feruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg and she was a finalist, proving to be an an accomplished Lied singer, at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Poertschach on Lake Woerther See. In 2015 she won the 3rd prize and several special prizes at the international Hilde Zadek Competition and the 1st prize at the Nico Dostal Singing Competition in Vienna.
Tamara Ivaniš made her opera debut in 2011 at the National Theatre in Varaždin in the role of Lucy in the baroque opera “The Beggars opera” by J. Gay. A year later she returned to sing the role of Cupid in the opera “Venus and Adonis” by J. Blow.
In the context of isaOperaVienna 2012 the young soprano, only eighteen years old, celebrated her Vienna opera debut in the historic Schlosstheater Schönbrunn as Barbarina in the opera “Le nozze di Figaro” by W.A.Mozart. In 2014 she could be heard there as Zerlina in the opera “Don Giovanni” by W.A.Mozart. In university productions, she also played the role of Pimpinella in the ballet opera “Pulcinella” by Igor Stravinsky and in the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn the role of Lauretta in the opera “Gianni Schicchi” by G. Puccini.
Between 2014-16, while still a student, the young soprano made her successful role debut as Queen of the Night in the opera “The Magic Flute” by W.A.Mozart in a production of the Marionette Theatre Schoenbrunn Palace. In the same year she also took part in a master class with Ioan Holender and was invited to record the aria “Chi il bel Sogno” from the opera “La Rondine” by G. Puccini for the film “Superwelt” by Karl Markovics.
In 2015, Tamara Ivaniš made her debut at the Salzburg Landestheater as Flaminia in Haydn’s opera “Il Mondo della Luna”under the musical direction of Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla . She also made her role debut as Blonde in “The Abduction from the Seraglio” at the Summer Serenades Graz.
From 2016-2018 she was a member of the Gerard Mortier Opera Studio of the Salzburg Landestheater and sang roles such as Taumännchen (“Hansel and Gretel”), Ilia (“Idomeneo”). “Olympia” in “Tales of Hoffmann” and the Spring Voice Waltz at the New Year’s Eve Concert under Massimo Zanetti in the Great Festival Theatre in Salzburg. In 2018 she joined the ensemble of the Landestheater Salzburg and has since then, among others, appeared in the female lead role in Rossini’s “La Gazzetta” and as Despina. In 2019 she appeared as Frau Silberklang in Mozart’s “Der Schauspieldirektor” in a production of the Stuttgart State Opera’s opera studio and is invited to perform with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.
