Margarethe Bence was an American opera singer, who sang both mezzo-soprano and contralto parts and was mostly active in German and Austria, including international festivals such as the Bayreuth Festival and the Salzburg Festival.
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Margarethe Bence's repertoire included music from Baroque to contemporary premieres.
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Margarethe Bence toured with the Robert Shaw Chorale from 1950 to 1953, when she continued her studies in Stuttgart.
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Margarethe Bence appeared first in concert, especially in alto-parts of oratorios.
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Margarethe Bence studied a broad repertory, from Baroque to contemporary music, playing as both comic and tragic characters.
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Margarethe Bence appeared as a guest artist, first in 1959 when the Stuttgart Opera performed Wagner's Parsifal at the Vienna State Opera.
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Margarethe Bence was engaged there for Handel's Jephtha, with Fritz Wunderlich, and for Janacek's Jenufa.
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Margarethe Bence performed at the Bayreuth Festival, in 1962 as Rossweisse and Waltraute in Der Ring des Nibelungen, the next year Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, and a small part in Parsifal.
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Margarethe Bence sang at the Bavarian State Opera first in 1963, the role of Babekan in the premiere of Werner Egk's Die Verlobung in San Domingo.
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Margarethe Bence moved to the Bavarian State Opera in 1970, where she sang among others Annina in the production conducted by Carlos Kleiber which was recorded.
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Margarethe Bence appeared as a guest internationally, including Berlin, Bucharest, Paris, Rome, Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco.
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Margarethe Bence died in Munich on April 1,1992, aged 61.