Nada Toncic

Background

Tončić was born in Syrmian city of Zemun (then in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, now in Belgrade Region, Serbia).

Career

She studied singing at the Zagreb Academy of Music. Her career began in 1933 in the opera company of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, where she remained until 1963. She died in Varaždin, Croatia, in 1998, at the age of 89.

Achievements

• Her lyric soprano became famous in her roles in Louisiana traviata, Ero s onoga svijeta, Madame Butterfly, Porin, Eugene Onegin and others