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Marta Eggerth (17 April 1912 – 26 December 2013) was a Hungarian actress and singer from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár , Fritz Kreisler , Robert Stolz , Oscar Straus , and Paul Abraham , composed works especially for her.
Dec 31, 2013 · Marta Eggerth, an operetta star in Europe and the United States who was almost certainly the last living link to the grand musical confections of Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kalman, died on Dec. 26 ...
Mártha Eggerth. Actress: La chanson du souvenir. From the day she was born Martha lived in a world of music. For sure her father was a banker but he was also an amateur pianist. As for her mother, she was a housewife but also a very talented opera singer who had given up her career for the joys of matrimony and motherhood.
- January 1, 1
- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- January 1, 1
- Rye, New York, USA
Learn about the life and career of Mártha Eggerth, a Hungarian-born opera and operetta singer who became a child prodigy and a Hollywood star. Find out how she met and married Jan Kiepura, fled Nazi Germany, and performed in Broadway and TV shows.
- April 17, 1912
- December 26, 2013
Dec 30, 2013 · The Budapest-born soprano Marta Eggerth, who died on December 26 at the age of 101, incarnated the fact that the frothy Middle European art-form of operetta had a vastly significant Jewish element.
Jan 4, 2014 · Marta Eggerth in her Rye, N.Y., home in 2012, days before her 100th birthday. (Joseph Victor Stefanchik/For The Washington Post)
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Marta Eggerth was the last link with the Silver Age of Viennese Operetta, singing songs by Lehar, Kalman and Stolz. She also appeared in more than 40 films, many with her husband Jan Kiepura, and performed The Merry Widow in five languages.
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