 Her last Covent Garden performance was in 1976 as Freia in "Das Rheingold".Carlyle appeared as Mimi in "La bohème" at "La Scala" in Milan under Herbert von Karajan.Performances were given at the Munich Festival (where her Zdenka in Strauss's "Arabella" opposite Lisa Della Casa prompted her interest in the title role), in Brussels, Monaco, and the Netherlands as well as at the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.