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Margaret Matzenauer (sometimes spelled Margarete Matzenauer or Margarethe Matzenaur) (1 June 1881 – 19 May 1963) was an Austria-Hungary -born, later resident in the United States, mezzo-soprano. She had an opulent timbre and wide range.
Jun 1, 2001 · One such forgotten artist is the contralto/mezzo/soprano Margarete Matzen-auer, who made her debut in 1901 and retired from the operatic stage in 1930. Her reputation at the Metropolitan Opera was one of honor and admiration. She debuted in 1911 and remained a valued artist for 19 seasons.
Margaret Matzenauer, a wellknown contralto with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the days of Enrico Caruso, died yesterday morning at a convalescent home in Van Nuys, Calif.
Possessed of a stupendous contralto voice, Margaret Matzenauer was born in Temeszvar, Hungary, in 1881, and she made her opera debut as Puck in Weber's Oberon at the Strasbourg Stadttheater in 1901. For seven years, from 1904 to 1911, she was featured in Wagnerian soprano roles with the Hofoper in Munich.
Margaret Matzenauer (sometimes spelled Margarete Matzenauer or Margarethe Matzenaur) (1 June 1881 – 19 May 1963) was an Austria-Hungary-born, later resident in the United States, mezzo-soprano. She had an opulent timbre and wide range.
MATZENAUER, MARGARETE (1881–1963), contralto, later soprano, singer. Born in Temesvár (then Hungary), Matzenauer grew up in musical surroundings and began to study singing at an early age, first in Graz and later in Berlin.
Margarete Matzenauer, who had studied the role of Kundry years before but had never sung it on the stage, saved the performance thanks to her musical security - and not only that: from the first performance on, Kundry was one of her most brilliant accomplishments.
