Christiane Eda-Pierre "The Magic Flute", and at the Palais Garnier in 1960, as "Lucia di Lammermoor". She sang there the standard lyric coloratura roles of the French and Italian repertories. She also won great acclaim in Mozart roles, especially Konstanze in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", as well as the Countess in "Le nozze di Figaro", Donna Anna and Elvira in "Don Giovanni", The Queen of the Night in "The Magic Flute". Eda-Pierre was much appreciated in French baroque opera, particularly the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, including "Les Indes galantes", "Zoroastre", "Les Boréades" (taking part in the first modern performance in September
Robert Radford to another source) Hagen in "Götterdämmerung". He was then engaged with the Grand Opera Syndicate at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and he was successively engaged by Thomas Beecham in his productions at various venues, including Covent Garden, Drury Lane and His Majesty's Theatre. In Beecham's production of Wagner's "Ring cycle" he again played Fasolt, opposite the Fafnir of the younger Norman Allin, who succeeded him as Britain's foremost bass. Among his best-known roles were Mephistopheles (Gounod's "Faust"), Osmin ("Il Seraglio"), Sarastro ("The Magic Flute"), the Father (Charpentier's "Louise"), "Ivan the Terrible" and "Boris Godunov" (title role), which he