Marga Schiml

Marga Schiml (born 29 November 1945) is a German opera singer who sings mezzo-soprano and alto. She has appeared at major European opera houses and festivals, such as the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera and La Scala, at the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival. She was also an academic voice teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 1987 to 2011.

Career Born in Weiden in Upper Palatinate, Schiml studied at the Musikhochschule München with Hanno Blaschke. Weber: Puck Cornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad, conducted by Ferdinand Leitner, with Helen Donath, 1974 Mozart: Annio in La clemenza di Tito, with Karl Böhm conducting Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1980 Bach: St Matthew Passion, 1981 Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, 1997 Handel: Salomo, 1986, re-issued 2009