Milka Ternina

Milka Trnina (even Milka Ternina ) (* October 19, 1863 in Vezišće, Austria - Hungary, now Croatia, † May 26, 1941 in Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia) was an opera singer.

The soprano appeared in all the major opera houses in Germany, Russia, in the United Kingdom and the United States. From 1890 until her health-related withdrawal from the stage, she was a member of the ensemble of the Munich Court Opera. It was remarkable that she was invited in spite of their great successes in other houses only once to the Bayreuth Festival in 1899 and sang Kundry in Parsifal. In contemporary sources differences over an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera in New York were put forward. However, an evaluation of exchanges of letters by Hannes Heer from 2012 showed that the Bayreuth Festival line they mistook for a Jew, and she received no further invitations the more so because of the prevailing anti-Semitism in Bayreuth.

Her repertoire included the major roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven's Fidelio, Richard Strauss ( Arabella ). She also excelled in operas by Giacomo Puccini ( Tosca ) and Giuseppe Verdi ( Aida ). At the peak of her career Trnina announced on June 1, 1906 after a performance of Die Walküre in Munich with a single set their retreat known: "Thanks, this was my last gig! "

The next 35 years were spent Trnina traveling, as honorary professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb ( since 1913 ) with the training of young singers, as well as with charitable appearances.

One of her most famous pupils was Zinka Milanov. The proceeds of their farewell concert in Zagreb ( 1,992 crowns) they donated in 1897 to the Association for the Protection of the Plitvice lakes ( croatian: Društvo za uređivanje i poljepšavanje Plitvičkih Jezera ). Therefore, some waterfalls up to their name in the Plitvice Lakes National Park. After her death, she was buried at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb.