[2] Carroll appeared as Lulu in the work's US premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 1963, when acts 1 and 2 were given in a set designed by Heinreich.
[6] She performed alongside Donald Gramm as Dr. Schön, Elaine Bonazzi as Countess Geschwitz, and George Shirley as Alwa, conducted by Robert Craft.
[6] Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times wrote:Miss Carroll was, dramatically, a perfect Lulu—sexy, provocative, very much the femme fatale.
In 1968, Aribert Reimann composed for her voice Inane, a monologue for soprano and orchestra setting a text by Manuel Thomas [de].
[11] In 1968, she premiered the song cycle Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin by Wilhelm Killmayer in Munich, with the composer as the pianist.
The others included the conductor and composer Michael Gielen, the oboist Heinz Holliger, and the pianists Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky.