Claude Albright

After leaving Vassar, she went with her mother to Paris, where she took voice lessons from Anna de La Grange^[4] and then joined the Opéra-Comique in 1901.^[5] At the time, she was one of only five Americans to have performed there, along with other notable singers like Mary Garden and Sibyl Sanderson.^[6] In 1903, she returned to the United States and joined Henry Wilson Savage's Castle Square Opera Company,^[7] where she toured nationally in various productions, mostly English-language versions of famous operas. Her best-known roles with the company were as Kundry in Parsifal and Brünnhilde in Die Walküre.^[8][9][10]

In 1910 she returned to Europe, joining the Stadtheater Bremen and then the influential Carl Rosa Opera Company in London.^[11] In Britain she received favorable reviews in a number of leading roles including Azucena in Il trovatore, Ortrud in Lohengrin, and the title role in Mignon.^[12][13][14] She then came back to the United States in 1912, spending a season with the Aborn Opera Company.^[15] Albright's mother and aunt both died in 1912–13 and she had to take time away from the opera to help settle their estates.^[16]

She performed at the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego in 1915^[17][18] and then joined the La Scala Grand Opera Company in Los Angeles for the 1916 season.^[19] In 1917 she married Edward W. Roberts, a construction engineer, and largely retired from touring.^[20] She died in 1923 of suspected heart failure and was buried at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque.^[21]

In 1918, Albright made three recordings for Edison Records, which were released as Edison Disc Records under the name Claudia Albright:^[22]

• La Partida (Edison 6046)
• Clavelitos (Edison 6051)
• Habanera (Edison 6057)