"somebody's mother or some guy", Troyanos once quipped: "I prefer the guys — but maybe a guy who also wears a beautiful dress from time to time." In Handel's Giulio Cesare, she sang both leading parts: Cleopatra (here essaying a soprano role, opposite Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on Karl Richter's 1969 recording for Deutsche Grammophon), and the alto title role of Caesar (at the opera in San Francisco in 1982, Geneva in 1983, and at the Met in 1988). Other roles Troyanos sang on opera stages in the course of her career included Cavalli's Diana (in La Calisto) Gluck's Orfeo (in Orfeo ed Euridice) Cimarosa's Elisetta (in Il matrimonio segreto) Mozart's Cherubino (in Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (in Don Giovanni) Donizetti's Giovanna Seymour (in Anna Bolena) and Maffio Orsini (in Lucrezia Borgia) Verdi's Amneris (in Aida) Puccini's Suzuki (in Madama Butterfly) Wagner's Venus ( in Tannhäuser), Brangäne (in Tristan und Isolde), Fricka (in Das Rheingold), Waltraute (in Götterdämmerung), and Kundry (in Parsifal) Humperdinck's Hansel (in Hansel and Gretel) Richard Strauss's Clairon (in Capriccio) Berlioz's Marguerite (in La damnation de Faust) Saint-Saëns' Dalila (in Samson and Delilah) and two roles she created, Penderecki's Sister Jeanne (in The Devils of Loudun), Hamburg State Opera, 1969 Glass's Queen Isabella (in The Voyage), Metropolitan Opera, 1992 Her singing was preserved in thirty-five live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts of complete operas (a number of which, including roles she never recorded in the studio — Princess Eboli, Giulietta, Brangäne, Waltraute, Geschwitz — have been restored in recent years for the Met's satellite radio channel); she was also heard in broadcasts from San Francisco Opera (including Poppea and Caesar—the latter was chosen as SFO's archival rebroadcast for 2016) and Lyric Opera of Chicago (including Romeo and the Rheingold Fricka). Eight more Met performances, plus a joint concert with Plácido Domingo, were televised, as were Norma (opposite Joan Sutherland) at Canadian Opera Company, and the last production in which she appeared, Capriccio at San Francisco Opera. All these telecasts have been released in home video versions except for the Met's Die Fledermaus and Les contes d'Hoffmann, which are available from its streaming service, "Opera on Demand". Troyanos sang roles in concert performances of operas ranging from Ulysses in Handel's Deidamia (Washington, 1987) and Farnace in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto (New York, 1992) to Sara in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (London, 1970) and Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (in