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Margarethe Siems

1879Rosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).–1952Rosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026). · German · sopranoRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).

Birthplace: Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)Rosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).

A German sopranoRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026). of unusually wide rangeWikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026)., who created three Strauss roles in four yearsRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).. She studied at the Dresden ConservatoryWikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026). with Aglaja Orgeni, a pupil of Pauline ViardotRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026)., and made her debut at Prague in 1902 as Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's Les HuguenotsKutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).. At Dresden from 1908 she created Chrysothemis in Elektra and the Marschallin in Der RosenkavalierRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026)., and at Stuttgart in 1912 Zerbinetta in the first Ariadne auf NaxosRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).. She sang the Queen of the Night, Isolde and Aida alikeRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026).. Strauss thought her the ideal MarschallinRosenthal, H. (1992) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 4, p. 372.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026)., and she sang the role for the last time in 1925Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Siems, Margarethe', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 2, col. 2747.Wikipedia (2026) Margarethe Siems. (Accessed: August 2026)..

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