The Fiery Angel
Pilarczyk became a specialist in works of the twentieth century, including works by Richard Strauss, "Salome" and ' (as the Dyer's Wife), Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel", Luigi Dallapiccola's "Il prigioniero", Stravinsky's ' and "The Flood", Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" and "Lulu", and Schoenberg's ' and "Von heute auf morgen". She appeared in Zürich, Berlin, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (as Salome in 1958), Florence (' and "Wozzeck"), the Glyndebourne Festival (as Composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Strauss, 1958), Paris Opéra ("Wozzeck", 1963, and "Von heute auf morgen", 1967), La Scala ("Lulu", then "The Flood", both in 1963), and Vienna.