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"
Comic opera was commissioned by the Bolshoi theatre and premiered on March 23, 2005. The staging of the opera was accompanied by juicy scandal; however it was an enormous success. In the United States, Victor Herbert (1859–1924) was one of the first to pick up the family-friendly style of light opera that Gilbert and Sullivan had made popular, although his music was also influenced by the European operetta composers. His earliest pieces, starting with "Prince Ananias" in 1894, were styled "comic operas," but his later works were described as "musical extravaganza", "musical comedy", "musical play", "musical farce", and even "opera comique." His