Melitta Muszely (German pronunciation: [meˈlɪta ˈmʊseli]; 13 September 1927 – 18 January 2023) was an Austrian operatic soprano and a voice teacher.

She was born in Vienna, and studied at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien: piano with Roland Rautenstrauch, and voice with Maria Freiberg-Marx.

[1] There she took part in several opera premieres, including Ernst Krenek's Pallas Athene weint[2][3] (1955) and Klebe's Figaro läßt sich scheiden (1963).

[1] In 1958, she portrayed four female characters (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella) in Offenbach's Hoffmanns Erzählungen at the Komische Oper Berlin in the legendary production by Walter Felsenstein.

[7] Muszely appeared at the Vienna State Opera from 1963 to 1967,[1][2] in the Mozart roles Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

She performed at the Maggio Musicale, in 1956 as both Woglinde and the Voice of a Forest Bird in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and in 1961 the title role of Arabella by Richard Strauss.

Muszely also recorded numerous operettes for radio, often as a partner of Fritz Wunderlich: Lehár's Der Zarewitsch and The Land of Smiles, and Leo Fall's Die Rose von Stambul.