Opera singer and teacher.

Olivia Goldenberger, known professionally as Olivia Monona, was born in 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin. She was raised with one brother, Ben Goldenberger, who went on to become the magician Ben Bergor. Monona received a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied English and became fluent in German, Italian, Swiss, and French, skills that would benefit her career as an opera singer later in life.

Following Monona's graduation from the University of Wisconsin in 1909, she taught English and German at Montfort High School in Montfort, Wisconsin for one year. Following that year, she auditioned for the Chicago Grand Opera Company and began her training for the opera chorus. In 1912 she married her classmate, engineer Clarence Johnson, and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent one summer visiting her grandmother in Chicago, moved back to Chicago, and continued working with the Chicago Opera Company. After a divorce, Monona went on to remarry the violinist Oscar Hanke, and to perform with the Chicago Grand Opera Company and throughout Chicago, with many performances at Ravinia Park. Following her years in Chicago, she continued her music career with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, as chorus master and singer of minor roles for contraltos. Later, she retired to Little Rock, Arkansas where she wrote articles and became a public speaker.

Olivia Monona died in 1976.