Margarita Voites

Margarita Voites (née Lombak, 30 October 1936 – 20 June 2024) was an Estonian coloratura soprano who appeared internationally.

The family later settled in Novosibirsk where Voites began attending school, before returning to Estonia, where she continued her studies in Viljandi and Tartu.

2 (now, the Miina Härma Gymnasium), she enrolled at the Faculty of History and Language of Tartu State University, to study bibliography.

[2][3] In 1957, she appeared on the university's stage in the main role of Imre Kálmán's operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre.

[6] She performed concerts in all Soviet republics, in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, India and Sri Lanka.