Often invited to sing Jocasta (Stravinsky's Oedipus rex) in Madrid (1986, 1987, 2009) and Nancy (Britten's Albert Herring) for Glyndebourne Touring Company (1987), she created the role of Anna Arild in Nigel Osborne's opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union (1988, 1989) and Terrible Mouth (1992).
In 1988, she made the BBC film of Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok in London, having performed it in Colmar, Alsace; she premiered this work in Tbilisi (1999) and Tokyo (1997), and during concerts in Festival St Riquier, France (1999).
Asked to sing Flora in La traviata by Verdi in Marseille (1996), returning for Judith Symphony, by Jean Guillou and Salomé, by Richard Strauss.
Elizabeth Laurence sang la madre in Al gran sole carico d'amore by Luigi Nono (1999) with acclaim in Hamburg Staatsoper, also stepping in, in Henze's We come from the River (2001).
At La Scala de Milan, Metz, Leeds and London, she sang the first performance in concerts of Le Visage nuptial by Pierre Boulez (1987) conducted by the composer; she was Erste Magd in Elektra (2005), Mother Marie in Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (2000/2004) and appeared in The Gambler by Prokofiev, filmed at Berlin State Opera (2008) under Daniel Barenboim's direction.
In 1986, she sang the solo part in the Proms premiere of Luciano Berio's Epifanie[2] In 1987, she took the role of the Wood Dove in Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder in a performance directed by Pierre Boulez.