[2] She gave three other performances with the company during that summer season, Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, and Tabitha in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's The Tower.
Sarfaty returned regularly to the SFO through 1968, portraying such roles as Clarion in Richard Strauss's Capriccio, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Meg Page in Falstaff, Jane Seymour in Anna Bolena, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and the title roles in Regina and Carmen (conducted by Robert Craft, in 1961), among others.
[2][6] In 1958 Sarfaty made her debut with the New York City Opera as the Widow Zimmerlein in Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau.
[2] She sang in two world premieres with the company, the role of "the Mezzo" in Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search of an Author (opposite Beverly Sills),[7] and in Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove.
[8] In 1960 she starred as the Secretary in the third New York City Center revival of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul alongside fellow artists Patricia Neway as Magda, Chester Ludgin as John, and Werner Torkanowsky conducting.
[9] In 1959, the mezzo-soprano sang Adele in Bellini's Il pirata, opposite Maria Callas, for the American Opera Society, at Carnegie Hall, a performance that was much later issued by EMI on Compact Discs.
9 in 1964 under conductor Leonard Bernstein; sharing the stage with fellow soloists Martina Arroyo, Nicholas di Virgilio, and Norman Scott.
[12] Sarfaty made her European debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier in 1960 at the Glyndebourne Festival, returning there twenty four years later to portray Adelaide in Arabella.