 Michael Tippett's "The Midsummer Marriage" was presented in the house in 1972 with Carlyle as Jenifer.She recorded the part in the first complete recording of this work.In Italian opera her successes include Desdemona in Verdi's "Otello" with James McCracken in the 1965–66 season, and subsequently with Vickers in 1972, where her performance was noted by Hope-Wallace as "experienced, dignified, and often very touching, though at first too pale, muffled and cautious."