[1][2] This performance was followed by return engagements at that opera house as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Octavian in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.
[1] In 1982 she became a resident artist at the Cologne Opera where she achieved critical success as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1983, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss in 1985, and as Octavian.
[10][11][12][13] In 1991 she made her debut at the San Francisco Opera as Bellini's Romeo and portrayed Dulcinee in Massenet's Don Quichotte at the Teatro Comunale, Florence.
[1] In 1998 she was a featured soloist in a concert of music by composer Ned Rorem at both the New York Festival of Song and at the Library of Congress; performed as the mezzo soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor at Carnegie Hall with Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus; and portrayed Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Athens Concert Hall.
[17][18][19] Ziegler performed Dorabella in a film version of Mozart's Così fan tutte directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
[20] She also recorded the part of Sara in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, and Giovanna in his Anna Bolena alongside Edita Gruberová in the title role.