He returned for the same opera in 1981 (now with Lucia Popp and Gail Robinson alternating as Pamina, and Zdzisława Donat as the Queen of Night), and the same season sang Monsieur Presto in the Met premiere of Les mamelles de Tirésias (directed by John Dexter).
She returned to that theatre in 1987, for Constanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in John Dexter's production.