Shane's performance in the 1971 live recording of Les Huguenots received praise as "borderline astonishing" by reviewer Charles Parsons.
[3] With the New York City Opera, Shane sang in such operas as Dialogues des Carmélites (as Mme Lidoine), The Love for Three Oranges (as Fata Morgana), Don Giovanni (now as Donna Anna) and Die Zauberflöte (Queen of the Night).
Her repertoire at the Met, over eight seasons, included La bohème (as Musetta), Un ballo in maschera (as Oscar), Le siège de Corinthe, La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Le prophète (as Berthe, in John Dexter's production), and Rigoletto.
[citation needed] Shane returned to the New York City Opera in 1979, creating the title character in Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire,[4] and singing in La traviata.
Later, she sang Dircé in Médée (in the Italian version) and Giselda in I Lombardi alla prima crociata with that company.