Born in
Leipzig, Scherler studied at the
Musikhochschule Berlin and with Margarete Bärwinkel. She made her opera debut in 1959 at the
Staatsoper Hannover in the part of Cherubino in Mozart's
Le nozze di Figaro. She remained a member of the opera house until 1964. She was engaged at the
Cologne Opera until 1968 and since a member of the
Deutsche Oper Berlin. She sang in the premieres of operas, in 1976 in
Toshiro Mayuzumi’s
Kinkakuji after
Mishima Yukio's novel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, in 1979 in
Wilhelm Dieter Siebert's
Der Untergang der Titanic, and in 1984 in
Aribert Reimann’s
Die Gespenstersonate (
The Ghost Sonata), after
August Strindberg. and in 1978 she sang the part of Elsbeth in
Feuersnot of Richard Strauss,
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the
Berliner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester and the
RIAS Kammerchor. In 1967 she sang the part of Smeton in a broadcast performance of Donizetti's
Anna Bolena, produced by the
WDR in 1967, with
Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and
Karl Ridderbusch as
Enrico, conducted by
Alberto Erede. In 1973 she performed the part of Meroe in a recording of Othmar Schoeck's opera
Penthesilea after
Kleist, with
Zdeněk Mácal conducting the
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester. In 1990 she appeared in a recording of
Franz Schreker's
Der ferne Klang with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, conducted by
Gerd Albrecht. Scherler recorded several
Bach cantatas with
Fritz Werner, including in 1973
Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, with the
Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn,
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.
Ingeborg Reichelt and
Bruce Abel. == References ==