Margit Rupp was born in Budapest. She studied at the Fodor Conservatorium (now the
Aladár Tóth ) and at the
Budapest Music Academy She made her operatic debut in 1926 as Leonora in Verdi's
La forza del destino at the
Vienna State Opera.
Marcel Prawy wrote of this: Margit Schenker-Angerer, a prominent figure of Viennese society, was also extremely good-looking, with the smile and the figure of a Botticelli nymph...Her friends and acquaintances were just waiting for the merchant's wife to come a cropper and disgrace the entire opera as well as herself. Was it not a clear case of a stage-struck amateur aspiring to make a career as a singer with her husband's money and position behind her? But as the premiere took its course it became increasingly obvious that 'Manzi' was a professional to her finger-tips, and as Leonora she went from strength to strength, while the face of the friends and acquaintances grew redder and redder. Other frequent stage portrayals included Elsa in
Lohengrin and Dorota in
Weinberger's
Schwanda the Bagpiper. In Salzburg, she made her first appearance during the 1930 Festspiele in the title role of Gluck's
Iphigénie en Aulide. Three years later, she appeared there as Aithra
Die ägyptische Helena by R. Strauss. It does in any case appear that by 1946 she was in London. In 1949 she married Stephan Karpeles-Schenker at
Westminster in England. Her various recordings were issued as individual 78 rpm discs (one aria/duet per each of the two sides, as was standard practice at the time) and later collected on (first) a 33 rpm black disc album and (later) as a CD. She made recordings with
Alfred Piccaver between 1928 and 1930. == References ==