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Eggerth, Marta, 1912-2013

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Personal name headingEggerth, Marta, 1912-2013
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Variant(s)Eggerth, Martha, 1912-2013
Eggert, Márta, 1912-2013
Birth date19120417
Death date20131226
Place of birthBudapest (Hungary)
Place of deathRye (N.Y.)
Field of activityOperetta
Profession or occupationSopranos (Singers) Motion picture actors and actresses
Special noteData contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in*MGTI-Res. 73-22 Haus Neuerburg G.m.b.H., Merzig, Germany. Der künstlerische Tanz. Merzig, Saar [ca. 1934] no. 222.
Panek, W. Jan Kiepura, 2006: p. [3] (Marta Eggerth)
German Wikipedia, Feb. 27, 2013 (Marta Eggerth; Martha Eggerth; Márta Eggert; b. Apr. 7, 1912, Budapest; Hungarian opera singer and film actress); Dec. 30, 2013 (b. Apr. 17, 1912; d. Dec. 26, 2013, Rye, N.Y.; had lived in New York since 1938)
   <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Eggerth>
Telegraph (online), viewed Dec. 30, 2013 (Márta Eggerth; b. Apr. 17, 1912, Budapest; d. Dec. 26, 2013; singer hailed as "the Maria Callas of operetta" who enchanted Broadway but turned her back on Hollywood)
New York times (online), viewed Dec. 31, 2013 (in obituary published Dec. 30: Marta Eggerth; b. Apr. 17, 1912, Budapest; coloratura soprano; began singing as a child in her native Hungary and became a star as a teenager in Vienna in the period known as the Silver Age of operetta; starred in musical films in Austria, Hungary, Germany, England, and Italy; m. Jan Kiepura, 1936; settled in the U.S. before the outbreak of war in Europe; d. Thursday [Dec. 26, 2013], Rye, N.Y., aged 101)
LC database, Dec. 31, 2013 (hdg.: Eggerth, Martha; usage: Marta Eggerth)