Ljiljana Molnar-Talajić

World class opera diva and soprano with one of the most powerful voices in the Balkans. From her birth town of Bosanski Brod, where she sang in the church choir, to the London Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, she left a long lasting impression. She completed her solo singing studies at the Music Academy in Sarajevo in 1961 in the class of prof. Bruno Spiler, and in 1963 she completed her postgraduate studies at the same academy. She sang for 15 years at the Sarajevo Opera, 5 years in Zagreb before she transferred to the Academy of Music, as a professor of singing, and for the rest of her life she was engaged in pedagogical work.