Arlene Saunders, Soprano
Papillon PA1019
CD I
1-6 - Richard Wagner : Lohengrin (Excerpts from the opera)
Lohengrin, Placido Domingo
Elsa, Arlene Saunders
Telramund, David Ohanesian
Ortrud, Ruth Hesse
König Heinrich, Hans Sotin
Chor und Orchester der Staatsoper Hamburg
Matthias Kuntsch, Conductor
Hamburg, Staatsoper, June 16, 1968
79.52 minutes
 
CD II
1-2 - Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Excerpts from the opera)
Ariadne, Arlene Saunders
Bacchus, Ernst Kozub
Zerbinetta, Sylvia Geszty
Harlekin, Heinz Blankenburg
Scaramuccio, Willy Brokmeier
Truffaldin, Noel Mangin
Brighella, Gerhard Unger
Najade, Regina Marheineke
Dryade, Cvetka Ahlin
Echo, Helga Thiome
Chor und Orchester der Staatsoper Hamburg
Matthias Kuntsch, Conductor
Hamburg, Staatsoper, June 16, 1968
3-6 - Richard Strauss : Vier letzte Lieder
7-8 - Franz Schreker : Zwei Lieder nach Walt Whitman (in German)
- A Child said, What is the Grass ?"
- Roots and Leaves themselves alone" (Not complete)
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf
Berlin, September 24 1978
78.51 minutes
Arlene Saunders (born in Cleveland, on October 5, 1935) is an underrated American spinto soprano opera singer. After making her operatic debut as Rosalinde von Eisenstein, in Die Fledermaus, with the National Opera Company in 1958, she made her first appearance with the New York City Opera in 1961, as Giorgetta in Il tabarro (conducted by Julius Rudel). With that company, she soon sang in Carmen (as Micaëla), La bohème (as Mimì), Louise (opposite Norman Treigle as the Père), Die lustige Witwe and Don Giovanni (as Donna Elvira). In 1964, Saunders began a relationship with the Hamburg State Opera, with whom she made films of Le nozze di Figaro (as the Contessa, 1967), Der Freischütz (1968), and Die Meistersinger (with Giorgio Tozzi and Richard Cassilly, 1970). With the company she also created the part of the music teacher in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks! in 1968. For RCA, she recorded Il re pastore (with Lucia Popp and Reri Grist), in 1967. In 1971, she created the title role in Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci, which she repeated at the City Opera in 1973. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, as Eva in Die Meistersinger, and in 1978, the soprano returned to the City Opera for La fanciulla del West. She also appeared at Milan, London (Covent Garden), Paris, Vienna, Rome and Buenos Aires.In 1985, Miss Saunders was named a Kammersängerin, in Hamburg. That same year, she gave her Farewell, as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, at the Teatro Colón.

Source: Wikipedia