Margit Angerer
also Margit von Rupp, Margit Angerer-Schenker
Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Margit Angerer was a Hungarian soprano who studied at the Budapest Academy and made her Vienna State Opera debut in 1926, as Leonora in La forza del destino. She remained there until 1935, singing roles as varied as Pamina, Tosca, Elsa, Eva, Octavian and Marguerite, and appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival in operas by Strauss, creating Aithra in the revised Die ägyptische Helena there in 1933. She also sang Octavian at Covent Garden in 1931. She moved to London in 1938 and continued her career as a concert singer.
Creations
- Aithra — Die ägyptische Helena (Salzburg, 1933)
Written from
- Wikipedia (2026) Margit Angerer. (Accessed: August 2026). Gives her birth year as 1895; Wikidata carries four birth years across its sources, none preferred. 1903, matching Grove and the biografiA lexicon of Austrian women, is used here.
- Salzburger Festspiele (n.d.) Die ägyptische Helena, 1933. (Accessed: August 2026).
- Cummings, D. (1992) 'Angerer [von Rupp], Margit', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 1, p. 136.
- Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Angerer, Margit', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 1, col. 70.
- Wiener Staatsoper (n.d.) Margit Angerer / Schenker - Angerer. Performance archive. (Accessed: 25 October 2026).