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 style was widely imitated by their contemporaries (for example, in "Dorothy"), and the creators themselves wrote works in this style with other collaborators in the 1890s. None of these, however, had lasting popularity, leaving the Savoy Operas as practically the sole representatives of the genre surviving today. Only recently, some of these other English light operas have begun to be explored by scholars and to receive performances and recordings. The first opera presented in Russia, in 1731, was a comic opera (or "commedia per musica"), "Calandro", by an Italian composer, Giovanni Alberto Ristori. It was followed by the comic operas