David Kirchner's Erinys (1990). In 1988 she sang in the United States premiere of Europera I and Europera II at the Pepsico Summerfare. Some of the more than 120 leading roles she has performed on stage include: Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, Carlotta in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, Chrysothemis in Richard Strauss's Elektra, the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, Giorgetta in Puccini's Il tabarro, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, Madeleine in Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten, Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Melisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Minnie in Puccini's La fanciulla del West, both Mimì and Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Olympia in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the Woman in Poulenc's La voix humaine, Zdenka in Strauss's Arabella, and the title roles in Aida, L'incoronazione di Poppea, The Cunning Little Vixen, Jenůfa, Lulu, Káťa Kabanová, Madama Butterfly, Salome, and Tosca. In the production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Frankfurt, staged by Ruth Berghaus and conducted by Michael Gielen, she appeared as Freia and Gutrune. She performed the part of the Duchess of Parma in Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust at the Oper Frankfurt in 1980, staged by Hans Neuenfels, with Günther Reich in the title role and William Cochran as Mephistopheles. In 1999 she sang there the Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Herodias in Salome, and the Mother in Adriana Hölszky's Die Wände. In 2000 she took the part of the Leitmetzerin in Der Rosenkavalier. In 2001 she appeared as The Old Burya in Jenůfa at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. In 2005 she sang the role also in Frankfurt. Concert In 1980 Card premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's Französisches Liederbuch at the Schwetzingen Festival with baritone Philippe Huttenlocher and the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, conducted by Paul Angerer. Awards She was awarded the title Kammersängerin ("Chamber singer") by both Frankfurt and Munich. References Sources Chronology of Western Classical Music: 1751-1900 By Charles J. Hall External links 1937 births Living people People from Dunkirk, New York American operatic sopranos The New School alumni 21st-century