Margit Angerer

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Margit Angerer around 1926

Margit Angerer [b. von Rupp], also: Margit Schenker-Angerer ( November 6, 1895 (not 1903) in Budapest - January 31, 1978 in London ) was a Hungarian opera and concert singer with a soprano voice .

life and work

After studying singing in Budapest, the Angerer made her debut in Vienna in 1926 as Verdi's Leonora . Her debut caused a sensation because she came from prominent Viennese society and not from the ranks of young artists; Angerer was married to the owner of the shipping company Schenker & Co. , Gottfried Schenker-Angerer. Her debut was the first of more than 160 leading roles at the Vienna State Opera from 1927 to 1935, primarily as Octavian in Rosenkavalier , as Elsa in Lohengrin and as Dorota in Schwanda, the bagpiper . In the Haus am Ring she also sang Lisa , Micaëla , the composer and Rosalinde in der Fledermaus .

The role of Octavian brought her career particularly strong. In a letter to Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote: Die (Schenker) -Angerer as Octavian is lovely and always better; the best line-up ever since opera existed. Necessarily the Angerer to Salzburg take ... . And that's how it happened: At the Salzburg Festival of 1930 , Angerer made her debut in the title role of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide . In 1933 she sang the Aithra in the Egyptian Helena von Hofmannsthal and Strauss . She played Octavian in Salzburg until 1935.

Also in the film Angerer had at least an appearance: 1933 as a concert singer in the Rakoczy march of Gustav Frohlich . In Vienna she gained a good reputation as a song interpreter at an early age, for example at the premiere of the Three Songs for Voice and Piano op. 22 in 1928 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; the composer accompanied her on the piano.

The singer no longer appeared at the State Opera after 1935; she counted herself as part of the political resistance, but stayed in Vienna during the Second World War. In October 1944, she and her daughter were in Gestapo detention . She later moved to London, where no further appearances are recorded.

Several recordings exist, including a compilation with Alfred Piccaver and popular duets by Gounod , Massenet , Puccini and Wagner .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Harrandt, Monika Kornberger: Angerer, Margit. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Vienna State Opera 1869 to 2009 , ed. von Wiener Staatsoper, compiled by Andreas Láng and Oliver Láng (Vienna 2009) ISBN 978-3-85409-538-5 . Second part: list of artists.
  3. ↑ Marcel Prawy , The Vienna Opera (New York 1970), pp. 120-121.
  4. ^ Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to Richard Strauss, May 7, 1929. In: Martin Schmid, ed., Hugo von Hofmannsthal Brief Chronicle (Heidelberg 2003), Vol. 2, Col. 2856.
  5. ↑ Certificate dated November 30, 1946, appendix to the application for membership in the Association of Political Prisoners of December 31, 1946, DÖW 20100/10217.
  6. ↑ Reinhard Müller : Some Austrian refugees in Great Britain. P. 35 (PDF; 417 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Angerer, Margit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenker-Angerer, Margit (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera and concert singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1978
Place of death London