Ljubomir Milanović

Baritone Ljubomir Milanović completed his Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance in 2024 at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, in the class of Prof. Snežana Stamenković. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree and, from 2025, is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

In 2025, he made notable role debuts as Dr. Falke in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with the Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim and as the father (Peter) in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel with the Kammeroper München at Munich’s historic Cuvilliés Theatre. He is a recipient of numerous prizes at international competitions, having received Second Prize and the Gottlob Frick Prize at the 13th Anneliese Rothenberger Competition (Germany, 2025), First Prize at the Nina Solo Competition (Norway, 2024), the Fritz Wunderlich Prize (Germany, 2025), the Prize for Best Lied Duo at the Erika Köth Competition with pianist Mari Ichihashi (Germany, 2025), and Second Prize at the P. Salomon Lindberg Competition “Das Lied” at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany, 2024).

He made his professional operatic debut in 2024 as the Flemish Deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and reprised the role shortly thereafter at Theater Koblenz. In 2025, he returned to the Pfalztheater to appear as the Conspirator in Kurt Weill’s comic opera Der Zar lässt sich photographieren. Milanović devotes significant artistic attention to art song and contemporary repertoire, in close collaboration with his Lied Prof. Axel Bauni, with whom he has worked on projects and recordings for Deutschlandfunk and SWR. His artistic development has been further shaped by masterclasses with KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Lisette Oropesa, Rudolf Piernay, Claudia Visca, David Bižić, and Jean-Noël Briend.