Marianne Mathy

Marianne Mathy (; 23 June 1890 – 15 October 1978) the couple emigrated in 1939 to Sydney, Australia. They were naturalized in 1944. (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music), and participated in the inaugural meeting for the short-lived New South Wales National Opera, the predecessor of the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia). In 1963, she was commissioned by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to make a new English translation of Charles Gounod's opera Faust.

A highly respected teacher of opera and classical singers, Mathy taught fifteen winners of the Melbourne Sun Aria. In 1965 she wrote The Singer's Companion. Many of her pupils became nationally and internationally renowned opera singers and include Althea Bridges, June Bronhill, Joan Sutherland, Peter Cousens and Lyndon Terracini.

Legacy Mathy left in her will a bequest from which the Marianne Mathy Scholarship for young opera and classical singers was established. First awarded in 1982 to New Zealand soprano Nicola Waite, the Scholarship, also known as The Mathy, is one of the longest-running, recognised and respected scholarships of its type in Australia and New Zealand. The Mathy is the major award in the Australian Singing Competition. These are both managed by Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST).

The 1-hour documentary The Legacy of Madame Marianne Mathy was premiered in 2022 at the Jewish International Film Festival in Sydney.