Mia Oremović, Mirjana Bohanec, and Relja Bašić

"Great Silver Cross with a Star" awarded to Mirjana Bohanec by the President of the Republic of Austria,

for her contributions to deepening cultural ties between Austria and Croatia.

Mirjana Bohanec Born in 1939 in Zagreb, Mrs. Mirjana Bohanec served as Croatian opera singer, diplomat and a film star. Her concert reportoire is very extensive: from Baroque oratorial works of Bach, Haendel, Monteverdi, Pergolesi, Cherubini, Vivaldi, to such classics like Mozart and Haydn. She sang numerous pieces of Lied: Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, etc.). She also interpreted works of Croatian authors: Antun Sorkočević, Vinko Jelić, Ivan Lukačić, Ferdo Livadić, Vatroslave Lisinski, etc. Except in Croatia, she had concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy, Swityerland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, France, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Australia, Canada and in the USA. However, she is best known for her role in an anthological Croatian film Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (Who Sings - Does not Think of Evil). She was also a Croatian diplomat in Germany and Austria in 1990s. An extensive monograph about her life and work was prepared by Dr. Hrvojka Mihanović Salopek and her colleagues; see below.

Mirjana Bohanec Vidović, Croatian opera primadonna, diplomat and film star,

a monograph written by Dr. Hrvojka Mihanović and her colleagues, published in Zagreb in 2021

(editor Ernest Fišer)

Dr. Hrvojka Mihanović Salopek (organist) and Mirjana Bohanec in 1993,

on the occasion of restauration of organs in Vugrovec near the city of Zagreb.

Mirjana Bohanec with Tomislav Žganec

(known as Mali Perica - Little Peter from the film Tko pjeva zlo ne misli)

Her second name - Bohanec, was the name of her father-in-law. Her real second name was Sorić, according to her father

(from the island of Ugljan) who dissappeared in 1945 in the circumstances of the advent of communist rule in ex-Yugoslavia.