Margit Bokor

Margit Bokor (born April 2, 1900 in Losonc as Margit Wahl , † November 9, 1949 in New York City ) was a Hungarian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Margit Bokor was born in Losonc in Neograd County, Hungary at the time . She took singing lessons in Budapest and Vienna . In 1928 she made her debut at the National Theater in Budapest. She was engaged at the Leipzig Opera from 1928 to 1930 and at the Semper Opera from 1930 to 1933. So she appeared on November 16, 1932 in Verdi's opera Die Macht des Schicksals , in which she took on the role of Donna Leonore di Vargas . In Mozart's opera Così fan tutte she played the role of Dorabella , in Suppès operetta Boccaccio she sang the role of Beatrice . In Wagner's opera Tannhäuser she played Venus (under Fritz Busch ), and in Verdi's opera Don Carlos she played Elisabeth von Valois . She took on the role of Zdenka in Strauss' opera Arabella , which premiered on July 1, 1933. Returned to Vienna in 1933, she was solo singer at the opera theater from 1934 to 1938 ; she also appeared at the Salzburg Festival ( 1934 in Elektra ).

She moved to North America in 1939, where she continued her career at major houses in New York, St. Louis , Chicago and Philadelphia . She was also heard in Rio de Janeiro as Traviata and as Musetta in La Bohème . From 1947 she was a member of the City Center Opera in New York City.

literature

Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Electronic resource. Digital Library, Volume 33, ZDB -ID 2050683-1 . Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89853-133-3 .
Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Bokor, 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 .
Margit Bokor . In: Agata Schindler: Maličká slzička. (Slovak, English), Bratislava 2016, ISBN 978-80-89427-26-0 .

Web links

Margit Bokor at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Works by and about Margit Bokor in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Agata Schindler: Margit Bokor in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)
↑ Terézia Ursínyová: Veľké slzy muzikologičky. Opera Slovakia, January 20, 2017, accessed August 4, 2018 (Slovak).
↑ different information in the older literature: June 1, 1903 ( HLW , OeML ) or January 17, 1905 ( Kutsch / Riemens )
↑ Theater and Art. (...) Margit Bokor's plans. In: Neues Wiener Journal , No. 15.570 / 1937 (XLV. Volume), March 24, 1937, p. 11, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj.
↑ Hagemeyer, p. 208 (8.41 Margit Bokor (1905–1947), singer, contemporary photo. Leipzig, around 1930) from: Sächsische Staatstheater. Sheets of the State Opera . Dresden, November 1930, ZDB -ID 1308080-5 , SLUB: Z.4.7 (1930)

personal data
SURNAME	Bokor, Margit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wahl, Margit (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Losonc
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1949
Place of death	New York City

[:0-1] Agata Schindler: Margit Bokor in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)

[2] Terézia Ursínyová: Veľké slzy muzikologičky. Opera Slovakia, January 20, 2017, accessed August 4, 2018 (Slovak).

[3] rent information in the older literature: June 1, 1903 ( HLW , OeML ) or January 17, 1905 ( Kutsch / Riemens )

[4] Theater and Art. (...) Margit Bokor's plans. In: Neues Wiener Journal , No. 15.570 / 1937 (XLV. Volume), March 24, 1937, p. 11, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj.

[5] Hagemeyer, p. 208 (8.41 Margit Bokor (1905–1947), singer, contemporary photo. Leipzig, around 1930) from: Sächsische Staatstheater. Sheets of the State Opera . Dresden, November 1930, ZDB -ID 1308080-5 , SLUB: Z.4.7 (1930)