But she also sang in other composers ' operas ; the title role in Puccini 's Madama Butterfly , Marie in Alban Berg 's Wozzeck , Eva in Meistersinger , Blanche in Poulenc 's Dialogues des Carmélites , and the title role in Janáček 's Káťa Kabanová .
She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 1953 - a1954 season the role of Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro She is especially remembered for her singing of the music of Mozart and Richard Strauss , but she also sang in other composers ' operas ; the title role in Puccini 's Madama Butterfly , Marie in Alban Berg 's Wozzeck , Eva in Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Blanche in Poulenc 's Dialogues des Carmélites , and the title role in Janáček 's Káťa Kabanová .