Iva Mihanovic
Iva Mihanović (also known as Iva Schell) (born 19 April 1978 in Ulm, Germany) is a German-Croatian soprano opera and concert singer and the widow of the actor, producer, director and Oscar prize winner Maximilian Schell. Life. Iva Mihanović lives in Preitenegg, Austria and Ulm. In August 2013, she married Maximilian Schell (47 years her senior) 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: She performed at the following festivals: