Milo Miloradovich

Milo Miloradovich (January 21, 1897 — October 27, 1972) was an American operatic soprano, writer of cookbooks, and investment consultant. 

Miloradovich was born on January 21, 1897, in Spokane, Washington, to Serbian nobleman Dusan Miloradovich (1856-1928) and his wife, née Emma von Almen (1858-1946).

She studied music with Conal O'Cuirc Quirke (1876–1965) and Norwegian mezzo-soprano Marta Sandal (1878-1930). She then went to Europe and made her debut at the Royal Opera of Liege in Belgium.

Returning to the United States, Miloradovich continued her studies with Horatio Connell, conductor/composer Kurt Schindler, and pianist Walter Golde, and began her career in her hometown, Spokane, in 1918, under the name Emily Miloradovich.

In 1919, she moved to New York, where she initially performed as Maria Milo. In January 1930, she performed in Das Rheingold: Philadelphia, Metropolitan Opera House (German Grand Opera Company) (Freia, Siegrune, Zerlina, and Woglinde.) In 1931, she sang with the Chautauqua Opera Company. In 1932, she won a Naumburg Music Foundation award. 

Throughout the 1930s, Miloradovich performed in New York as a concert singer, singing several times at the Metropolitan Opera, and appeared also in orchestral concerts and recitals.

After retiring from singing, Miloradovich became a cookbook author and published such books as The Art of Italian Cooking (1948 with Maria Lo Pinto), The Art of fish dishes (1949), Growing and Using Herbs and Spices (1952), and Cooking with Herbs & Spices (1950).

Since the early 1950s, Miloradovich was engaged in investment consulting, initially at the brokerage firm R. W. Pressprich & Co. and then as part of the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York (now a division of Franklin Templeton). 

Towards the end of her life, she was a director of the Norcross Wild Life Foundation, established under the will of Arthur D Norcross Jr. (1895-1969) (great-nephew of Emily Dickinson,) and was in charge of the reserve Norcross County Hampden (Massachusetts). She was also a member of Advertising Women of New York, the Women's Bond Club of New York, and the Herb Society of America.

Miloradovich died on October 27, 1972, at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, New York. She was 75.