Sandra Warfield performed with the Zurich Opera, where in 1961 she sang Katerina in the world premiere of Martinů's "The Greek Passion". They returned to the United States, and the Metropolitan Opera, in the 1960s. Her performances at the Met included Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera", Berta in "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini, Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Maddalena in "Rigoletto" by Verdi and Erda in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried", totaling 172 performances. She sang the role of Delilah in "Samson and Delilah", with Richard Tucker performing as Samson. In her farewell performance in January 1972, Warfield
Gioachino Rossini Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition. They also underpin the fact that Rossini himself was an outstanding pianist whose playing attracted high praise from people such as Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Louis Diémer. He died at the age of 76 from pneumonia at his country house at Passy on Friday, 13 November 1868. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. In 1887, his remains were moved