She appeared regularly at the SFO over the next eight years, portraying such roles as Albine in Thaïs, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna in L'Africaine, the Charwoman in The Makropulos Affair, Clotilde in Norma, Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, Curra in La forza del destino, Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Emilia in Otello, Flora in La traviata, Flosshilde in Das Rheingold, Fyodor in Boris Godunov, Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande, Glasha in Káťa Kabanová, Isaura in Tancredi, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Laura in Luisa Miller, Mirinda in Ormindo, the Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Sextus in Giulio Cesare, Siebel in Faust, Siegrune in Die Walküre, the Voice From Above in Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Wowkle in La fanciulla del West among others.
[3] In 1973 Jones sang the role of Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti at Carnegie Hall.
In 1988 Jones made her debut at the New York City Opera as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro; a part she repeated with the NYCO in 1993 and 1995.
[13][14] In 2001 she portrayed the role of Alma March in the Houston Grand Opera's production of Mark Adamo's Little Women which was broadcast on PBS's Great Performances.
[19] She has returned to the NOO several times since, including performances of Marcellina (2006), Berta in The Barber of Seville (2006), La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (2007), Mary in The Flying Dutchman (2010), Herodias in Salome (2012), and Suse Blunt in Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr (2013).