Cecil Arden (December 15, 1894 – September 4, 1989) was an American mezzo-soprano and contralto opera singer active over the early decades of the twentieth century.

Her father was real estate broker originally from Charleston, South Carolina, and her mother a native of Springfield, Illinois.

[2][3][4][5] Little is known of Arden's early life other than that she studied under the Italian Arturo Buzzi-Peccia and that there are photographs of her singing at a patriotic event on the steps of New York’s Federal Hall National Memorial during World War I (possibly after she joined the Metropolitan Opera).

[6][7] In October 1917, she was one of nearly 30 performers slated to appear in Friday Morning Musicals at the New York Biltmore Hotel from November into January, 1918.

The remainder of her career would be spent on concert tours in Europe and America before the Great Depression made such enterprises financially risky.