Margit Angerer
Margit Angerer (born "Margit Rupp": 6 November 1895 - 31 January 1978) was a Hungarian opera soprano. Biography. Margit Rupp was born in Budapest. She studied at the and at the Budapest Music Academy where she was taught by Arturo de Sanctis. She made her debut in Budapest. After her marriage to logistics entrepreneur Gottfried Schenker-Angerer in 1919 she joined her husband in Vienna. Angerer quickly made herself a reputation in the Lieder genre through salon performances in Vienna. In December 1925 she had her first stage success with Verdi's "Requiem" in the Vienna Konzerthaus, a performance  also broadcast on the radio. She made her operatic debut in 1926 as Leonora in Verdi's "La forza del destino" at the Vienna State Opera. Marcel Prawy wrote of this: In 1927 she signed a contract with the Vienna State Opera, where she appeared more than 160 times in solo roles until 1935. Abroad, she used the stage names "Margit von Rupp" and "Margit Schenker-Angerer". Angerer also worked outside of Vienna, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and notably at the Salzburg Festival where she appeared in , 1933 and 1935 as Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier". She regularly  played Octavian in Vienna, too: it appears to have been the role for which she was best known. In May 1929 Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote to Richard Strauss: ""Angerer's Octavian is charming and ever better; absolutely the best in the history of the opera"". Other frequent stage portrayals included Elsa in "Lohengrin" and Dorota in Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper". In 1928 she gave the world premier of "Three songs for singer and piano Opus 22" by Korngold, accompanied by the composer himself as pianist. In Salzburg, she made her first appearance during the in the title role in  Gluck's "Iphigénie en Aulide". Three years later, she appeared there as Aithra in "Die ägyptische Helena", a less well known product of the long professional partnership between Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Her role as "the concert singer" in Gustav Fröhlich's "Rakoczy-Marsch" (1933) is her only known appearance in film. In November 1946, she applied for and was given membership in the Association of Political Prisoners. In her application she stated that in October 1944, while still living in Vienna, she and her daughter had been imprisoned by the Gestapo. It does in any  case appear that by 1946 she was in London. In 1949 she married Stephan Karpeles-Schenker at Westminster in England. Her various recordings were issued as individual 78rpm discs (one aria/duet per each of the two sides, as was standard practice at the time) and later collected on (first) a 33rpm black disc album and (later) as a CD. She made recordings with Alfred Piccaver between 1928 and 1930.