Margarethe Arndt-Ober: What happened during World War II?
A coda on casting in the time of conflict
In Friday’s edition of Undone, I took a look at the life and career of German mezzo-soprano Margarethe Arndt-Ober. If the available recordings of Ober (who used her maiden name onstage), combined with the press she garnered following her US debut, are any indication, she may have become the Anna Netrebko or Elīna Garanča of her time. But the US involvem…