Marie Rappold

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Marie Winterroth Rappold (1873 – 12 May 1957) was an English-born American soprano who sang opera.

Rappold was born in London to German parents. She moved to Brooklyn, New York at around the age of five, where she later studied with Oscar Saenger and sang with the Amberg German Opera Company.

Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera was on 22 November 1905 as Sulamith in Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba (Queen of Sheba, 1875) and she continued to appear at the Met until 1920. At the Met, she gave a total of 198 performances in 23 roles and 22 operas. Her first husband, Dr. Julius Rappold, objected to her career, and she divorced him in 1907. In 1913, she married tenor Rudolf Berger (17 April 1874, Moravia - 27 February 1915, New York City).

She recorded for Edison and Victor Records, and appeared in short films for Universal Pictures. She also appeared in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process in 1922, which is now in the Maurice Zouary film collection at the Library of Congress. She died in 1957 in North Hollywood, California.