TRACKLISTING
1 E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (Contessa) Le nozze di Figaro Mozart
2 O wär’ ich schon mit dir vereint (Marzelline) Fidelio Beethoven
3 Wie nahte mir der Schlummer … Leise, leise, fromme Weise (Agathe) Der Freischütz Weber
4 Dich, teure Halle (Elisabeth) Tannhäuser Wagner
5 Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta) Die tote Stadt Korngold
6 Er ist der Richtige nicht für mich … Aber der Richtige, wenn’s einen gibt für mich (Arabella)* Arabella R. Strauss
7 O, habet Acht (Saffi) Der Zigeunerbaron J. Strauss II
8 Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol (Countess) Der Vogelhändler Zeller
9 Wär’ es auch nichts als ein Augenblick (Eva) Eva Lehár
10 Hör’ich Zymbalklänge Zigeunerliebe Lehár
11 O jag’ dem Glück nicht nach (Sylva Varescu) Die Cárdásfürstin Kálmán

Spanish soprano Pilar Lorengar was born in Zaragoza on 16 January 1928 and died in Berlin on 2 June 1996. Her early success was in singing traditional zarzuelas in Spain. Her operatic career began to flourish during the late 1950s when she began to appear in all the important opera houses and where she achieved special distinction for her interpretations of Mozart. However, she presented a breadth of operatic repertory that included many Puccini roles and several of the important Wagnerian roles — notably Elsa and Eva. It was the Deutsche Oper in Berlin where she first appeared in 1958 which became very much her operatic “home”, and she appeared in that house for over thirty years.

Although her “official” discography is not large it amply demonstrates the superb lyrical qualities of her voice and her stylish interpretative gifts, clearly demonstrated in the selection of operatic arias and the handful of operetta numbers included here.