W. A. Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor
Mlle Silberklang's Aria "Bester Jüngling!"
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Staatskapelle Dresden
Recording:Dresden, Lukaskirche, 09/1973
Joyce Arleen Auger (September 13, 1939 - June 10, 1993) was an American soprano singer, admired for her ravishing, crystal-clear, lyric coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Gluck and Mozart.
Arleen Auger performed Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate in Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986 at the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson; she later recorded this work along with the Great Mass in C minor under Leonard Bernstein, in 1990. On December 5, 1991, the bicentenary of Mozart's death, she sang his Requiem with Cecilia Bartoli and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Georg Solti in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. Her over two hundred recordings includes the complete soprano cantatas of Bach and the works of Schoenberg.
Arleen Auger sang beautifully for more than a quarter century. She sang great music and never bowed or pandered to public taste. Arleen Auger was a true artist, steady and serious to the end.