Iva Mihanović
Iva Mihanović, also known as Iva Schell, is a German operatic soprano and concert singer. She is the widow of Swiss actor Maximilian Schell.
Life
Iva Mihanović lives in Preitenegg, Austria and Ulm. In August 2013, she married Maximilian Schell with whom she was romantically involved since 2008 and who died February 1, 2014, in Innsbruck.Iva Mihanović is patron of Education World Maximilian Schell in Wolfsberg, as well as the HistiozytoseHilfe eV.
From 1998 to 2008, she studied singing with Edith Wiens at the Musikhochschule Augsburg and Ilse Hahn at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Iva attended master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Edith Mathis, Sena Jurinac, Irmgard Boas and Linda Plech.
From 2001 to 2006, Iva Mihanović was a member of the Theater Ulm where she sang many opera, operetta, and musical roles from 2009 until 2011, and again since the season 2015/2016 the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera / Musical comedy. Since 2006, she has performed these roles at the following theaters:
- 2006–2007: Theater St. Gallen, as Pepi Pleininger
- 2006–2007: Theater Augsburg, as Valencienne
- 2007–2013: Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, as Ottilie and Christl
- 2007–2008: Theater Ulm, as Annie and Christl
- 2008: Operetta Club Balzers, as Juliska
- 2009: Luzerner Theater, as Christl
- 2009: Stadttheater Baden near Vienna, as Dolly Marbanks
- 2012: Landestheater Coburg, as Ciboletta
- 2012: Gärtnerplatz Theatre Munich,
- Operetta Festival Bad Ischl – in 2003 as Juliette Vermont, 2004 as Ciboletta, and 2013 as Minnie Fay
- International Music Festival "Classionata" Mümliswil – in 2005 as Adele
- Castle Festival Schönbrunn Wien – in 2005/06 as Pepi Pleininger
- Mörbisch Lake Festival – in 2007 as Pepi Pleininger, directed by Maximilian Schell
- Schlossfestspiele Langenlois – in 2008 as Countess Stasi and 2010 as Ciboletta
- Mörbisch Lake Festival – in 2011 as Arsena, directed by Brigitte Fassbaender
- Richard Wagner Festival Wels – in 2012 as flower girl
- Richard Wagner Festival Wels – in 2013 and 2015 as Young Shepherd
- Freilichtspiele Altusried – in 2014 as Ottilie
- Stage Baden – in 2015 as Friederike
Prizes and awards
- 2000: Promotion and Artist grant from the city of Ulm
- 2002: Bayreuth scholarship of the Richard Wagner Society International eV
- 2002: Winner of the "International Singing Competition Festival City Passau"
- 2005: Finalist in the "3. Heinrich Strecker operetta competition "for operetta and Wienerlied Baden bei Wien
- 2008: Semi-finalist in the Hans-Gabor-Belvedere Competition in Vienna
- 2009: Finalist at the 24th Int. Robert Stolz Competition for Viennese operetta in Hamburg