1993 and at an Australia Day charity concert with José Carreras at Covent Garden before Prince Charles. That year she received an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship. In 2000 she stepped in at very short notice to sing Tosca in Adelaide for an ailing friend, Deborah Riedel who subsequently died of liver cancer at the age of 50. The story of wearing her own jewellery is apocryphal. Her farewell major role with Opera Australia was as Tosca in Sydney in 2002. After her final performance she was awarded the Opera Australia Trophy at a ceremony at the Opera House. In March 2003 she was given a reception in her honour by the Governor-General, Major General Michael Jeffery, at Admiralty House, Sydney. However, she did not stop singing altogether. In 2003, she created the role of "Public Opinion", based on the Australian political figure Pauline Hanson, in the Sydney season of Opera Australia's new production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. On 2 June 2003, Joan Carden sang at a ceremony at the Melbourne Town Hall to launch Australia Post's new series of stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 2006 she sang Exsultate, jubilate in a concert at the Great Hall of the University of Sydney with Sydney University Graduate Choir, music director Christopher Bowen, who sponsor the Joan Carden Award for young singers , the concert in honour of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 2006 also, she appeared in the musical Titanic, as Ida Strauss. It opened in Sydney to high praise from the critics, but the run was cut short due to poor ticket sales, and the planned Brisbane and Melbourne seasons were cancelled. She sang at the memorial concert for Rosina Raisbeck in early 2007. That year she appeared in a straight acting role in the Melbourne season of John Misto's Harp on the Willow, a play with music about the life of the Irish singer Mary O'Hara, starring Marina Prior as O'Hara. In the play, Carden and Prior sang "The Flower Duet" from Delibes' Lakmé. She was Patron of the now defunct National Voice Centre at the University of Sydney, the Victorian College of the Arts Opera, and the Musical Society of Victoria. and is a trustee of Opera Australia Benevolent Fund. Recordings Joan Carden made a number of recordings, videos and DVDs, including La