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A great French soprano,who had a sad experience as to possible collaboration with the Nazis during the war, but acquitted.(I have her own words below.).

She sings arias from: Tannhauser,Siegfried,Walkure,Tristan und Isolde,Freischutz, Sigurd (Reyer), Tosca, and songs as follows:

Chopin: Tristesse\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Schubert: Erlkonig\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Faure:\\xa0 Au bord de l\'eau

Debussy:\\xa0 Beau soir and Je tremble en voyant ton visage.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 (55 min.)

For her part, Lubin denied all ties to Nazi Germany, and grew deeply bitter over her treatment at the hands of the French government. She once said that

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I have suffered an enormous injustice. They curtailed my career by ten years \\u2014 my own people! The fact is that I knew some of the Germans when they came to Paris during the occupation. This gave my enemies the chance to satisfy their envy \\u2026 If I saw the Germans in Paris \\u2014and they had been more than kind to me\\u2014 it was to save my compatriots. It was my way of serving my country at that particular moment. Nobody knows how many prisoners I had released \\u2026 When I spent three years in prison, they confiscated my ch\\xe2teau at Tours and my possessions. Did anyone bother to ask me why I did not accept Winifred Wagner\\u2019s invitations to sing in Germany during the occupation? But my trial was a complete vindication: I was completely cleared. Yes, they gave back most of what they had taken \\u2026^[5]

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