 Miss Auger left the State Opera in 1974 to pursue her burgeoning concert career and to devote more time to teaching at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where she held a full professorship for a time in the early 70s.Among her pupils was soprano Renée Fleming, who studied with her in Germany during her year there as a Fulbright scholar.In the mid 70s, she traveled to Japan with Helmuth Rilling, serving at the last minute as a soloist in Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion.