Margit Bokor
Opera and operetta singer (1900-1949)
Margit Bokor, born Margit Wahl, (1 June 1903 or 1 April 1900 – 9 November 1949) was a Hungarian operatic soprano. She created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in 1933, but then had to leave Germany. She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1934 to 1938. She moved to Paris, then emigrated to the United States in 1939, continuing her career at opera houses of the Americas.
Life and career
Wahl was born in Losoncz, Kingdom of Hungary, in what was then the Hungarian Nógrád County, or perhaps in Budapest. She took singing lessons in Budapest and Vienna. She graduated in 1928 from the Budapest Conservatory, and made her stage debut the same year in the title role of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Leipzig Opera, where she was a member to 1930. She sang at the Semperoper of Dresden from 1930 to 1933. She appeared as Leonora both in Verdi's Il trovatore and his La forza del destino, as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Irene in Wagner's Rienzi and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, among 42 roles at the house. In Suppé's operetta Boccaccio, she sang the role of Beatrice.
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