said: ‘She is music, through and through…the best’. She died in Essen in 1990, aged 89. She was buried at the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna. In 1992, the Bästleinstraße in Dresden was renamed the Erna-Berger-Straße in her honour. Selected filmography Schlußakkord (1936) Ave Maria (1936, staging of La traviata) Maria Ilona (1939) Opera Ball (1939, vocals) Falstaff in Vienna (1940) The Swedish Nightingale (1941, vocals) Whom the Gods Love (1942) Immensee (1943, vocals) The Marriage of Figaro (1949, vocals for Susanna) Don Giovanni (1955, directed by Paul Czinner, as Zerlina) Bibliography Erna Berger: Die singende Botschafterin [The Singing Ambassadress], by Karla Höcker, Rembrandt Verlag, 1961. References External links , from Verdi's La traviata, with Beniamino Gigli (from Ave Maria, 1936) , from Mozart's Don Giovanni German operatic sopranos Soubrettes 1900 births 1990 deaths Musicians from Dresden Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery 20th-century German women opera singers