Danijela Pintarić

Danijela Pintarić is a Croatian soprano, violinist and stage performer, born in Zagreb on 13 March 1979. She went to primary school and the Franjo Kuhač music school in Osijek, then graduated in violin in 2001 and in solo singing in 2003 at the Zagreb Music Academy; as a student she regularly won prizes at competitions in violin, singing and non-classical chamber music.

She won HRT's reality show Coca Cola Music Stars, and in 2003 she made her debut at Zagreb's Komedija theatre as Sheila in the musical Hair. Since January 2006 she has been a permanent member of the Komedija company as its opera soloist, with roles such as Amneris in Aida, Rizzo and later Sandy in Grease, Helena in La belle Hélène, Nina in Jalta, Jalta, Tanya in Mamma Mia and Ružica in Legenda Ružice grada; for the last two she won the Croatian Theatre Award in 2016.

She has also done well at pop festivals. At the Krapina festival of kajkavian songs she won the jury's second prize and the audience award in 2006 with "Stiha povedaj mi, mati" by Đelo Jusić and Neda Zuban, and the Grand Prix in 2007 with "Još o tebi senjam". At Dora, the Croatian Eurovision selection, she won her semi-final in 2007 with "Moj svijet" and came third in the final, sang Zrinko Tutić's "Zlatna rijeka" in 2009, and in 2019 came ninth with "Vrijeme predaje", a duet with Bojan Jambrošić. In 2020 she won the Grand Prix of the Ljubo Kuntarić festival in Međimurje with "Dravski bal", a duet with Goran Grgić.

She has sung as a soloist with the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Sarajevo Philharmonic, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and the HRT Big Band and Tamburica Orchestra, given concerts across Europe, in the USA and in Japan, and in 2011 founded Trio Cantabile with Tvrtko Stipić and Mario Čopor. Since 2011 she has taught singing at the Academy of Arts in Osijek. Her own channel, with festival songs, duets and musical numbers, is the playlist here.