Christiane Karg Festival in 2006, as Melia in Mozart's "Apollo et Hyacinthus" and as Weltgeist in his "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots". A year later she appeared there as Madame Silberklang in his "Der Schauspieldirektor" and in a title role of his "Bastien und Bastienne". From the 2008/09 season, Karg was a member of the Frankfurt Opera where she appeared as Susanna in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", as Pamina in his "Die Zauberflöte", as Musetta in Puccini's "La bohème", Zdenka in "Arabella" by Richard Strauss, and the title role in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande". She appeared as Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier"
The Parlour reviewer in "Opera" magazine dismissed the music as "feeble in content, too long, and mis-timed in its relation to the dramatic action". The BBC, broadcasting a recording made at the Odeon Theatre, Llandudno, in November of the same year, described the première as "highly successful", and said that the opera, despite being Williams' first, displays a "confident professionalism and the theatrical awareness". The Parlour The Parlour is the only opera by the Welsh composer Grace Williams; a comic opera in one act, it is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Although written in 1961, it was not