Madama Butterfly with Regina Sarfaty as Suzuki and Loren Driscoll as Pinkerton. She made several more appearances with the SFO over the next ten years, including portraying Isabella Linton in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights in 1958. Her other roles at the SFO included, Mimi in La bohème (1958, 1967), Despina in Così fan tutte (1958), Nannetta in Falstaff (1958), Adele in Die Fledermaus (1959), Cio-Cio-San (1959, 1963, 1965), Alexandra Giddens in Marc Blitzstein's Regina (1959), Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (1960, 1965), Anne in The Rake's Progress (1960), Zerlina (1963), La Chauve-Sourris in L'Enfant et les sortileges (1963), St. Margaret in Arthur Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake (1963), and Costanza in Hans Henze's The Stag King (1965). Her final role with the company was in 1967 as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen. After leaving the Met in 1962, Allen became a regular performer at the Washington National Opera during the 1960s. She made her debut with the company in 1962 singing Violetta in La Traviata opposite Stanley Kolk as Alfredo. Her other roles with the company included Adele in Die Fledermaus and Cio-Cio San. She also sang a number of leading roles with the Central City Opera and with a few opera houses in Europe, including the role of Amore at the Liceu. From 1987–2009 she was a member of the voice faculty at Birmingham-Southern College where she taught voice, directed student opera productions, and taught a variety of subjects that encompassed art and literature in addition to music. When she retired, she still taught privately out of her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She was married to Edward Taub, a neuroscientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. References American operatic sopranos 1929 births 2021 deaths Birmingham–Southern College faculty New England Conservatory alumni University of Mississippi alumni Singers from Mississippi Classical musicians from Mississippi Singers from Tennessee Classical musicians from Tennessee 20th-century American women opera singers American women academics 21st-century American women