sentences:  Her performance was so well received she was immediately engaged to sing the role of Mimì in subsequent seasons, and has remained an annual performer at the Met since her debut.Her popularity at the house grew rapidly and she began to add more roles to her Met repertoire in the late 1990s, including Ellen Orford in "Peter Grimes", Antonia/Stella in "Les contes d'Hoffmann", and Violetta in "La traviata".She took over the latter part in 1998 after the firing of Angela Gheorghiu and the cancellation of Renée Fleming.