[1] She became a member of the opera chorus of the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York City, and was eventually promoted to singing small comprimario roles, beginning with one of the pages in Wagner's Tannhäuser[2][3] and the peasant girl in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1961.

[1][4] She went on to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1965 which led to her engagement as a soloist.

[2] Her roles at the Met included Annina in La traviata, both the Aunt and Barena in Janáček's Jenůfa, Barbarina and Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro, Berta in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Countess Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto, the Dew Fairy and the Sandman in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Feklusa in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, the Papagena and the First Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the Flower Seller in Britten's Death in Venice, Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen, Gerhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre, Giannetta in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Helen in Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra, Ines in Verdi's Il trovatore, Jouvenot in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Laura in Verdi's Luisa Miller, Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schichi, Lisa in Bellini's La sonnambula, Poussette in Massenet's Manon, Marianne in Der Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss, Marthe in Gounod's Faust, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Samaritana in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini, Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Xenia in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

In 1991 she created the role of the Woman with Child in the world premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.

She appeared as a guest, at major houses in the U.S. and at the 1975 Salzburg Festival as Hüterin der Schwelle in Die Frau ohne Schatten by R.