- In 2011, a street in Vienna's 23rd district was named Vera-Schwarz-Gasse in her honour.
- Having Jewish paternal grandparents, Schwarz was forced to leave Germany in 1933.
- Vera Schwarz returned to Vienna in 1948, teaching and giving masterclasses in the Salzburg Mozarteum.
- After the war she returned to Austria in 1948 back to her former domain. There she worked as a vocal teacher henceforth and in the 50s she even appeared in two more movies.
- Some respected sources (including Kutsch, K.J. & Riemens, Leo: 'Grosses Sängerlexicon', Franke Verlag, Bern and Stuttgart, 1987 Edition, Page 2697 - which further fails to mention that she ever sang in Paganini) claim that she also appeared with Tauber in Lehar's Der Zarewitsch, but this is incorrect. The 1927 operetta has only two soprano singing roles; one an ingénue role, played originally by de:Rita Georg, and the other a soubrette part, played by Charlotte Ander. There is simply no part in this operetta for a singer of Schwarz's voice and stature.
- Vera Schwarz already appeared in her first movie in 1920. In "Figaros Hochzeit" (1920) she played the role of the countess under the direction of Max Mack. After a long lasting interruption followed her second movie in 1935 with "Henker, Frauen und Soldaten" (1935) with Hans Albers. But before the movie was released Vera Schwarz had already left Germany because as a Jew she was no able to work there.
- She studied in Vienna with Philipp Forstén and gave her debut in 1908 at the Theater an der Wien. 1908 to 1912 she was a member of the opera in Graz, from 1911 to 1913 she sang at the Johann Strauß-Theater in Vienna. After performing in Karlsbad she came to the Hamburger Stadttheater in 1914. From 1918 to 1922 she was an ensemble member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
- In 1935 she went back to Austria and appeared at the Viennese Staatsoper. But Austria was only an inter-station of her banishment and after the annexation to the German Reich in 1938 she emigrated to England where she was able to continue her stage career. Afterwards she went to the USA where she appeared again as a singer, among others in Chicago and San Francisco.
- She appeared with Tauber in the Berlin Premiere of Lehar's operetta Paganini in January 1926 at the Deutsches Künstlertheater, and in a new production at the Theater des Westens in April 1930, both conducted by the composer. More famously, she and Tauber appeared, again under the composer's baton, in the October 1929 premiere of Das Land des Lächelns at the Metropol Theater in Berlin, making some famous creator-recordings at the time.
- In her book Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm Margarete Slezak recounts her meeting Vera Schwarz: "I paid Vera Schwarz a visit, and asked her to test my voice. Frau Schwarz found it would be worthwhile to train my voice, and promised me, while keeping this strictly secret from my family, to give me lessons. She lived with her mother, a delicate yet unbelievably energetic lady. Mama Schwarz missed no performance of her daughter. She sat in the middle of the parquet and influenced the audience's applause particularly loudly. While doing so she would turn left and right claiming loudly: "Charming, magnificent! Who is this God-gifted singer?". One time an acquaintance sat behind,unseen by her. He bent forward and said, for everyone to overhear: "But, gnädige Frau, surely you would know that!".
- In Hollywood she coached the American Sopranos Rise Stevens, and Marni Nixon.
- In Germany she often appeared successfully together with the opera singer Richard Tauber.
- From 1921 till 1930 Vera Schwarz appeared often as a guest in Vienna, and became a local star there, performing the title roles of Tosca and Carmen, Eva in Meistersingern, Sieglinde in Walküre, Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and Rachel in La Juive, receiving the title "Kammersängerin"". It was during this time that she taught her Vienna Staatsoper colleague Leo Slezak's daughter, (and Walter Slezak's brother), Margarete.
- The actress and singer Vera Schwarz became very popular as an opera singer in Austria and Germany.
- In 1908 followed the engagement at the Opera in Graz where she appeared regularly in the next four years. Other places followed which increased her popularity furthermore and which led her from Austria to Germany.
- One of her last roles was as Verdi's Lady Macbeth at the 1939 Glyndebourne Festival.
- After a vocal study she made her stage debut in 1908 at the Theater an der Wien where she took over a small role in an operetta.
- She celebrated her greatest successes in Vienna where she impersonated many classical roles in well-known operas. Appearances in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Budapest followed.
- Vera Schwarz was born in Agram, Croatia, as the daughter of Hungarian-Croatian aviation pioneer David Schwarz.
- In 1938 she emigrated first to England then to the United States, where she appeared in Chicago and in San Francisco, but concentrated mostly on concert appearances (including concerts at the Los Angeles German-Jewish club), and teaching in New York, and in Hollywood.
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