Soprano Maralin Niska, a mainstay of New York City Opera and America’s regional opera companies from the 1960s through the 1980s, died at her home in Santa Fe yesterday. She was 89.

As a tribute to La Niska, here is Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin’s presentation of Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, featuring the soprano in blazing 1980 form.