Margit Neubauer

Career

Born in Linz, Upper Austria, Neubauer took voice lessons from age 16 and then studied studied at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz. She was from 1974 to 1977 engaged at the Landestheater Linz, where she participated on 2 September 1976 in the premiere of Helmut Eder's opera Der Aufstand.

She was from 1977 to 2016 a member of the Frankfurt Opera. In 1978, she performed the part of Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Neubauer appeared from 1981 at the Bayreuth Festival, as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal from 1981 to 1985, and as Siegrune in Die Walküre in 1985 and 1986. She appeared at the Salzburg Festival of 1995 as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. Her roles included Dalila in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns, both Cherubino and Marcellina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Bostana in Der Barbier von Bagdad by Peter Cornelius, Brigitte in Korngold's Die tote Stadt, and the title role in Fräulein Julie by Antonio Bibalo.

She was in 1979 the alto soloist in a recording by Helmuth Rilling of Bach's cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, alongside Arleen Augér, Aldo Baldin (de) and Wolfgang Schöne. She appears as Emilia in Verdi's Otello in a 1982 live recording conducted by David de Villiers (sl), alongside Spas Wenkoff (de) in the title role.

Neubauer was awarded the title Kammersängerin in 1993. She retired from the stage in 2016.

Margit Neubauer is married to the Austrian opera singer Franz Mayer. The couple joined the Frankfurt Opera together in 1977 and both retired in 2016.