Description

MARIE RAPPOLD (LONDON, 17 AUGUST, 1879 – LOS ANGELES, 12 MAY, 1957)

Her real name was Marie Winterroth. At the age of five, she already appeared in London in child roles. Later, her parents emigrated to America. She studied singing in New York under Oscar Saenger. She made her debut in 1905 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Sulamith in K. Goldmark’s Königin von Saba. She remained at the Metropolitan Opera until 1909. In 1909, she was engaged by the Opera House of Bucharest and later guest-starred in German opera houses.

Her first husband was the American doctor Julius Rappold, from whom she separated in 1906. In 1913, she married the German tenor Rudolf Berger (1874-1915), who died two years later. She was engaged again by the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1910, where she stayed until 1920. At the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in Trovatore, Otello, Aida, Lohengrin, and Rheingold. She also appeared in the premieres of the operas Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck (1916) and Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung by H. Goetz (1916).

During the 1920s, she undertook tours with the San Carlo Opera Company through North America and made a guest appearance in 1923 at the Opera House of Havana. In 1925, she performed in Aida at Yankee Stadium in New York. In the 1927-28 season, she was with the Chicago Opera. In 1929, she undertook a concert tour through Europe, performing in Germany and Holland. Later, she worked as a pedagogue in Los Angeles.

Chronology of some appearances

Sulamith 1/2/1906, Stimme des Waldvogels 1/24/1907, Micaëla 1/29/1907, Elena 11/26/1907, Micaëla 1/12/1909, Leonora 1/28/1909, Euridice 12/27/1910, Venus 11/19/1912, Aida 12/15/1914, Leonora 11/23/1915, Elsa von Brabant 12/7/1915, Pamina 1/11/1916, Aida 6/6/1916, Elsa von Brabant 12/5/1916, Leonora 12/12/1916, Aida 11/30/1921, 11/20/1922, Leonora 12/2/1922, 11/3/1923, La gioconda 11/17/1924, Aida 2/12/1925, Leonora 2/26/1925 (Filadelfia)

TRACKLIST

1. Manon Lescaut (Puccini) In quelle trine morbide 82259 4953-B Edison, New York 1916-08
2. Martha (Flotow) The last rose of summer 28193 Edison
3. O Lord, be merciful (Bartlett) (1916) BA 28210 Edison, New York date
4. O, divine Redeemer (Gounod) 83076 PA 29048 Edison, New York 1916-02
5. Robin Hood (de Koven) O promise me 28029 BA 28165 Edison 4-min cylinders, New York 19111912
6. Serenade (Gounod) BA 28175 Edison 4-min cylinders, New York 19111912
7. Smiles (Roberts) 82150 PA 29020 Edison, New York 1918-09
8. Stabat Mater (Rossini) Inflammatus wih chorus 82101 BA 28212 Edison, New York 1915-01 (late 1914)
9. Stille Nacht (Gruber) 83063 BA 28249 Edison, New York 1916-08
10. Tannha?user (Wagner) Allma?cht’ge Jungfrau B43 Edison 2-min cylinders, New York 1906
11. Tannhauser (Wagner) Dich teure Halle 82114 3745 Edison, New York 1915-0405
12. Tannhauser (Wagner) Gepriessen sei die Stunde (w. Urlus) 82279 5529-C Edison, New York 1917-05-01
13. Tosca (Puccini) Vissi d’arte 82107 3801-C Edison, New York 1915-0405
14. Trovatore (Verdi) Mira d’acerbe lagrime with Taurino Parvis PA 29015 82573 Edison, New York 1918-0708
15. Trovatore (Verdi) Miserere with Giovanni Zenatello & chorus 82288 5007-A Edison, New York 1916-09
16. Trovatore (Verdi) Vanne, lasciami 30033 Edison 4-min cylinders, New York 1910
17. Walkure (Wagner) Siegmund heiss’ ich (w. Urlus) 82277 5533 Edison, New York 1917-05
18. Wenn die Schwalben heimwarts zieh’n (Abt) with Jacques Urlus BA 28242 4687 Edison, New York 1916-04-25
19. Whispering hope (Hawthorne) with Miller 82543 BA 28233 Edison, New York 1915-12
20. Zauberflöte (Mozart) Là dove prende with Mario Laurenti Edison 82242 7728-C