- Her discography features complete recordings of Die Zauberflöte (as the Queen of Night, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, 1937-38, for EMI), and Rigoletto, with Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Renato Cellini (1950) which was the first complete opera recording (with a few minor cuts) made in the United States by RCA Victor for commercial release. It is also the first complete opera ever released on long-playing (LP) records.
- Her main focus remained on the stage after the war as well where she was active till 1954. After her retirement she appeared at recitals time and again.
- The singer and actress Erna Berger became a greatly soprano singer in the 30s. To her most successful classic parts belong "La Traviata", "Die Zauberflöte", "Rigoletto", "La Bohème" and "Die Entführung aus dem Serail".
- At age 26, she secured a position as a soubrette soprano at the Semperoper in Dresden. She later held leading positions at the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- Berger also gave concerts in Japan, the United States, and Australia.
- She began her career with singing lessons in Dresden by Melitta Hirzel.
- Born in Dresden, Germany, Berger spent some years as a child in India and South America. She lived there later on as well, working as a clerk and a piano teacher, before borrowing enough money for the trip back to Germany.
- Her breakthrough followed in 1926 with an engagement at the Staatsoper in Dresden where she had her first success in "Hanneles Himmelfahrt". In the next years followed engagements at many important State Operas like Vienna and Berlin and finally she toured around the work, e.g. Japan, Australia, Africa and America.
- At 60 years of age, she left the stage and taught as a professor in Hamburg and Essen, where she died in 1990.
- Berger appeared at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1949/50 and 1950/51 seasons, in Der Rosenkavalier (opposite Eleanor Steber and Risë Stevens, conducted by Fritz Reiner and directed by Herbert Graf), Rigoletto (with Warren, then Enzo Mascherini), Die Zauberflöte, and Il barbiere di Siviglia (with Giuseppe Valdengo).
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