The young soprano Tamara Ivaniš had planned concerts with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and a production at the Teatro Regio in Torino for 2020 – both fell victim to the Corona crisis. From 2018 to 2020, the young singer was a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Salzburg and appeared in the female lead role in Rossini’s “La Gazzetta” and as Despina, among others. Before that she had already spent two years in the opera studio Gerard Mortier of the Salzburg Landestheater, singing 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 Theater in Salzburg. In 2019 she appeared as Madame Silberklang in Mozart’s “Der Schauspieldirektor” in a production of the Opera Studio of the Stuttgart State Opera.
In 2015 Tamara Ivaniš made her debut as Flaminia in Haydn’s opera “Il Mondo della Luna” at the Salzburg Landestheater under the musical direction of Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla. In the same year she sang for the first time the role of Blonde in “The Abduction from the Seraglio” at the Summer Serenades Graz.
In 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 Theater Schloss Schönbrunn. 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 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 appeared 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.
In 2011 already, Tamara Ivaniš sang the role of Lucy in the baroque opera “The Beggars opera” by J. Gay at the National Theater Varaždin. A year later she was re-engaged for the role of Cupid in the opera “Venus and Adonis” by J. Blow.
The young soprano has won several international competitions: in 2009 she won the 1st prize at the Dubrovnik State Competition. In 2010 followed 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 was a multiple prize winner at the international Feruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg and as an accomplished lied interpreter she was a finalist at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach (Austria). In 2015 she won 3rd prize and several special prizes at the international Hilde Zadek Competition and 1st prize at the Nico Dostal Singing Competition in Vienna.
Born in Croatia, Tamara Ivaniš began her vocal studies at the age of 17 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, which she completed in the summer of 2016 with Univ. Prof. Karlheinz Hanser.
