Orgeni was born in Rimászombat,
Galicia (now
Rimavská Sobota,
Slovakia). She studied with
Pauline Viardot in
Baden-Baden She became a member of the
Hofoper Berlin (1865–1866), making her debut as Amina in Bellini's
La sonnambula. Her students included
Maude Fay, Carolyn Ortmann,
Margarethe Siems, and
Beatrice Gjertsen Bessesen. She eventually was appointed to the rank of Royal Professor, the first woman in Germany to receive that title. Aglaja Orgeni died in Vienna in 1926, aged 84. ==References==