The sudden death of Karlo Metikos on December 10, 1991, along with the turbulent beginning of the 90-is, brought considerable changes to the context of her work. In the following years she prepares numerous concerts as a tribute to him, which are traditionally held until today.

The first of them, entitled "Ritam kise" ("Rhythm of the rain"), by Matt Collins' (Karlo Metikos) big 1963 hit, was held on the first anniversary of his death, in 1992 in "Istra" hall (Zagreb's youth theatre). This so-called Karlofest included around fifty Croatian musical artists, which was a precedent on the Croatian music scene of that time. The variety of the generational structure of the musicians gathered at the concert - from Arsen Dedic, 4M, Crveni Koralji ("The red corals"), to Neno Belan, Dino Dvornik and Psihomodopop - confirmed Karlo's omnipresence in the Croatian music, first as a singer and rock and roll pioneer in this corner of the world, and then as a pop composer and producer. The sound recording of this concert was released in 1994 as the album entitled "Ritam kise" ("Rhythm of the rain") and a year later it won the Porin award as the best compilation album outside the classical music genre.

But the next Porin award, which Josipa won in 1996, for the album "Koncert u cast Karla Metikosa" ("The concert tribute to Karlo Metikos"), had much more than a mere classical touch in it. To be more specific, her first collaboration with maestro Igor Kuljeric and the symphonic orchestra and choir of the Croatian National Television, in December 1994, yielded a brand new orchestrations and thus gave a whole new life to "Janino ludilo" (Jana's madness, another aria from Gubrc-beg), "Magla" ("The fog") or "Hazarder" ("The hazard-man"). Their collaboration continued in 1997 with a joint work on the concert remake of the rock opera "Gubec beg". This project, which came about as a combination of music and acting, brought on the stage of "Lisinski" concert hall in Zagreb names of music artists like Dado Topic, Massimo Savic, Toni Cetinski, and esteemed Croatian actors, namely, Anja Sovagovic-Despot, Dragan Despot and Filip Sovagovic.

Due to the original and always new conceptual designing of her every concert, Josipa once again changed the form of her musical expression. With the same cause, as a tribute to Karlo and his work, in 2001, on the tenth anniversary of his death, with ten candles on the stage, she is once again performing in "Lisinski" concert hall, this time - with a band consisting of the musicians from the younger generation (Gojko Tomljanovic - keyboards, piano, organ; Josip Grah - trumpet, accordion; Borna Sercar - drums, percussion; Davor Ivelic - bass guitar; Robert Vnuk - guitar). The large part of this concert, together with the snippets of concerts held at "Krizanke" hall in Ljubljana and "Lent" festival in Maribor, both in Slovenia, was released as a double CD in 2002, under the title "Josipa Lisac LIVE".

This traditional concert treat, without changing its cause, altered its concept yet for another time - on February 8, 2005, on the stage of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, again with the symphonic orchestra and choir of the Croatian National Television, conducted by maestro Tonci Bilic, Josipa sang the arias from "Gubec beg", together with the songs from the world famous musicals. For this occasion, she used the works of some of the most important composers of the genre, like Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein and others.

The next tribute concert for Karlo, this time officially labeled as 'the concert of love', was held at the same place (December 3rd, 2006), but in a rather different form. With the help of one of the most distinguished Croatian theatre directors, Dora Ruzdjak-Podolski, Josipa put around her songs the robe of the four seasons of the year, and thusly placed them in the context of spring, summer, autumn and winter, which was at the same time the basis for Josipa's own and the whole stage incarnation of this extraordinary evening. The sounds of the first song 'Ave Maria', sung with the discreet candlelight and the touch of smoke, just as the very intimate rendition of the song "Posve slobodna" ("Totally free"), whose impact on the stage was made stronger by the appropriate hanging lamps that created the atmosphere of Lorca's Andalusia, are just some of the chapters in the diary that Josipa, Karlo and their audience jointly and uniquely again wrote during this occasion. Love, as the main and everlasting driving force behind this and similar concerts, could best be felt in the letter to Karlo that Josipa read to him and the audience. Romana Brolih, the Croatian author, wrote it according to Josipa's ideas. In it Josipa touched the past, looked upon her own and our own present, and also gave a hint of the future. The summary of the evening can be seen in these spoken words: "You don't have to be by my side in order to be close to them. Music will suffice; it makes them happy. It is their light. Even when life lets them down, they see a raft in it. They do not need any explanations, least of all love. You are me. I am you. You and I are us. We are me. And you are us."
This concert is also the first ever to be recorded on the digital medium, as a DVD release under the label of Croatia Records. It was released and promoted in December 2007. 

By not giving up the practice of holding the concert tributes to Karlo Metikos and his work, Josipa, while speaking through music, conveys the message of love and says - do not forget your people. The work left to us by someone, if it has quality, can inspire to further development and creation. By caressing the existing, she treats every day as a new struggle in which one always has to make a fresh start. But at the same time she is looking forward to each new day, because, together with challenges, it also brings the new opportunities or indicates to the worlds still unexplored.

For Josipa, one of the discovered worlds, though not entirely, was the theatre. She got better acquainted with it in 1994, as a successful guest to "Koreodrama" (Choreodrama") theatre in Slovenia, in performance of "Suzna Maria Sirakuska" ("Tearful Maria of Syracuse), written and put on the stage by D. Z. Frey. In the same theatre she appeared for the second time in 1997 in "Schizophrenia" by the same author, with which she made a guest appearance in the European festival of the theatres. Ten years later, in August 2007, she once again has a chance to mix with the world of acting by taking part in the play 'Pijana noc 1918' ('The drunken night of 1918') produced by he Ulysses Theatre on the island of Brijuni. This dramatization of Miroslav Krleza's novel 'Pijana novembarska noc 1918' ('The drunken November night of 1918') was made by Tena and Ivo Stivicic, directed by Lenka Udovicki. The good reviews of both the actor's and the director's accomplishment is confirmed by the sold out performances on the BITEF festival (Belgrade's international theatre festival) during the late September 2007 together with the prize given by the Belgrade audience.

1997 also saw the release of "Josipa Lisac - Antologija" ("Anthology"), the materials and albums from 1967 to 1997, on 8 CDs and audio cassettes, which was one of the first endeavors of this kind in the Croatian discography. The next retrospective of Josipa's career with an emphasis on the hit songs Croatia Records released 10 years later in form of the platinum collection. This double 'Josipa Lisac Platinum' CD features 31 original recordings.

Her latest studio album, symbolically called "Zivot" ("Life"), made in the year 2000, was marked by the modern sound and experimenting with electronics, thanks to the collaboration with a versatile producer and orchestrator Gojko Tomljanovic. Prior to that, few of the songs from this album were promoted on the festivals, such as Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana ("The melodies of the Croatian Adriatic") and the festivals in towns of Split and Zadar. After a 13-year break from recording an album (since "Boginja" ["Goddess"] in 1987), she promoted "Zivot" on the tribute concert to Karlo in the December 2000. She did that in Zagreb's "Komedija" ("Comedy") theatre, on the same stage where almost three decades earlier she promoted her first studio album, the renowned "Dnevnik jedne ljubavi".

Recently, when concert-tributes have began to take place elsewhere in Croatia, by making guest appearances on them, Josipa confirmed the distinctiveness of her approach to every single of her performances. She appeared with remakes of her own songs - on the concert in tribute to the songs of the Croatian composer and lyricist Arsen Dedic (Opatija, 2003) she sang "Sto me cini sretnom" ("What makes me happy"), (which was her debut as a solo singer, in 1968 Opatija festival), and also remade "Oluja" ("The storm") on the concert in tribute of the songs to another Croatian composer, Zdenko Runjic (Opatija, 2004).

The year 2005 produced yet another remake, on the concert in Zagreb dedicated to the songs of Drago Mlinarec, where Josipa performed a song entitled "Helena lijepa i ja u kisi" ("The beautiful Helena and me in the rain"). Besides Josipa, a new life to this song was given by Romana Brolih, who wrote the extra lyrics for this occasion, which gave this song a whole new meaning.