sentences:  For almost four years, she was rarely in Europe, due to her long-term Metropolitan engagements ("Samson et Dalila" - 1981, "Il Trovatore", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Adriana Lecouvreur" - 1982, 1983, 1984).She starred in some, star-directed productions in Paris ("Nabucco", alongside Grace Bumbry and Sherrill Milnes - 1979, Jorge Lavelli's "Oedipus Rex" - 1979, Joseph Losey's "Boris Godunov" - 1980 or Sonja Frissell's "Un ballo in maschera", alongside José Carreras - 1981).In 1984, she was a vehement Klitemnestra in Regina Resnik's San Francisco Opera production of "Elektra".