[2] Bode performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 1968 to 1978, including Elsa in Lohengrin (from 1971) and Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (from 1973).
[3] She sang in Washington in 1975 as Elsa in a production of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at Covent Garden in 1977 the leading part of Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz,[2] She appeared as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Cologne Opera in 1980, alongside Jean Cox in the title role and conducted by Hans Wallat.
[5] She is Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in a 1974 live recording from Bayreuth, conducted by Silvio Varviso, in a cast with Karl Ridderbusch as Sachs, Jean Cox as Stolzing and Anna Reynolds as Magdalene.
"[6] She appears in the part again in 1975, with Norman Bailey as Sachs and René Kollo as Stolzing, and with Georg Solti conducting Wiener Philharmoniker.
[7] In 1970, she performed again a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, now with Pierre Boulez conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, with James King in the title role and Gwyneth Jones as Kundry.