Serbian opera singer. She was born in 1903 in Bela Crkva. She went to music school  in Timisoara, where she married and gave birth to daughter Mirjana, later known opera singer. In Belgrade she came in 1930, where she was soon admitted to the Opera. In 1937 she got fired and went from Belgrade to Vienna where she got hired  by the State Opera. Melanie became the first Serbian woman with a permanent engagement at the Vienna Opera. She returned to Belgrade after the Second World War, as a star after whom a car was especially sent from Vienna. Melanie Bugarinovic died in 1986.