Gillian Knight to her end, like all the best Carmens, with an almost heroic insolence." The role brought her to international attention, and she performed it opposite Plácido Domingo. She also performed at Covent Garden in "Arabella"; "The Bartered Bride"; "The Cunning Little Vixen"; "Eugene Onegin"; "Falstaff"; "The Fiery Angel"; "The Golden Cockerel"; "Iphigénie en Tauride"; "Jenůfa"; "Die Meistersinger"; "Rigoletto"; the "Ring" cycle; "Der Rosenkavalier"; "Semele"; "La traviata"; "Il trovatore"; "Otello"; and "Wozzeck". Among modern operas at Covent Garden, Knight appeared in Peter Maxwell Davies's "Taverner"; Hans Werner Henze's "We Come to the River"; Nicholas Maw's "Sophie's Choice"; Michael Tippett's "King Priam";
Baby Doe Tabor boarding house, where she had been living under the name "Ruth Norman". For the rest of her life, Baby Doe refused to believe the woman found as Ruth Norman had been her daughter, stating, "I did not see the body they said was my little girl." Alone in the cabin outside Leadville, Baby Doe turned to religion. She considered her life of great wealth a period of vanity and created penances for herself. During the frigidly bitter Colorado high-country winters, she wound burlap sacks around her legs. With no money, she ate very little, living on stale bread and suet,