Record ID:
55145343 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 97864840
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19120417
  • Budapest (Hungary)
Death:
  • 20131226
  • Rye (N.Y.)
Fields of activity:
  • Operetta
Occupations:
  • Sopranos (Singers) Motion picture actors and actresses
Used for:
  • Eggerth, Martha, 1912-2013
  • Eggert, Márta, 1912-2013
Notes:
  • Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
  • *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)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)905267
Cataloguing source:
  • NN-PD eng rda NN-PD DLC NcU DLC