2025/26 season was another significant chapter in Banješević’s career. She opened the season with a gala concert at La Monnaie in Brussels and appeared in a new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Oper Köln under Marc Albrecht. She subsequently performed in New York City at Park Avenue Armory in Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s critically acclaimed The F**ts and Their Friends Between Revolutions, appeared at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in Mendelssohn’s Ein Sommernachtstraum under Alain Altinoglu, and made her role debut as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo at Theater Kiel.

The 2024/25 season marked a turning point in her career, with her acclaimed debut as Salome at the Nationaltheater Weimar, her house debut as Woglinde and Gutrune in Pierre Audi’s Götterdämmerung at La Monnaie, and a triumphant return to the Opéra de Lyon in Marie-Ève Signeyrole’s Così fan tutte as Fiordiligi.

In recent seasons, Tamara has appeared at Oper Köln as Fiordiligi and as Poppea in Ted Huffman’s internationally celebrated production of L’incoronazione di Poppea, as Dalinda in Robert Carsen’s Ariodante at the Opéra national de Paris, as Pamina at the Opéra de Lausanne, and in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. Further highlights include Gretel at Staatsoper Stuttgart, as well as the Waldvogel and First Lady at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

Some other highlights include Gluck’s Euridice at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, Woglinde in Das Rheingold/Götterdämmerung and Waldvogel in Siegfried, and the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, as well as Woglinde in the new production of Das Rheingold at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. She also returned to the Aalto Theater as Eva in Scarlatti’s Cain, overo il primo omicidio and to the Bastille in Paris as the Blumenmädchen/Erster Knappe (Parsifal) under the baton of Simone Young.

In September 2018 Tamara Banješević joined the opera company of the Aalto Theatre Essen, performing roles as Fiordiligi, Pamina, Gretel, Micaëla (Carmen), Ännchen (Der Freischütz) directed by Tatjana Gürbaca (available on CD by Oehms Classics), Eva (Cain, overo il primo umicidio), Euridice (Gluck-Orfeo), furthermore gave her Salzburger Festspiele debut as Fortuna (Damigella) in L’incoronazione di Poppea(available on CD by Harmonia Mundi) debut at the Carnegie Hall and received the 1st Prize at the Manhattan International Music Competition.

While still a student, she was frequently invited as guest to the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Baden-Baden Festival, she performed at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Musikfest Stuttgart and Beethovenfest Bonn with Bachakademie and the SWR Orchester Stuttgart Helmut Rilling. Upon receiving her diploma, she joined the ensemble of National Theater Mannheim, where she performed roles such as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Giulia (La Scala di seta), Amenaide (Tancredi), Ännchen, Woglinde, Adele (Die Fledermaus), Nannetta (Falstaff), Zaide (Zaide), Ninetta (The Love for Three Oranges), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Valter (La Wally).

While in Mannheim, Tamara joined the Mozart Academy at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, returned to the Baden-Baden Festival for a production of Der Rosenkavalierwith Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and gave a song recital at the Heidelberger Frühling Festival. As a recitalist she was invited to perform in New York, Los Angeles, France, across Germany and Serbia.

The season 16/17 saw Tamara’s American debut at the Lincoln Center in New York with Maestro William Christie, debut at the Théâtre La Monnaie in Brussels, furthermore she was finalist at the 54th Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona.

Tamara has worked with musicians such as Helmut Rilling, Dan Ettinger, Fabio Luisi, Philippe Jordan, Sir Simon Rattle, Joseph Colaneri, Cornelius Meister, Sébastien Rouland, Tomas Netopil, Friedrich Haider, Harry Bicket, Simone Young, Ruben Dubrovsky, Alain Altinoglu, William Christie among others. 

A native of Belgrade (Serbia) Tamara Banješević graduated from the University of Music in Mannheim and received her Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School, studying with Edith Wiens. At only 22, Tamara gave her professional debut as Anna Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor at Schloss Weikersheim.