 Pashley them embarked on a second career as an opera singer, as a soprano.She studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and made her stage debut in 1959.She made her debut at Glyndebourne as the Second Boy in "Die Zauberflöte" in 1962, with her Covent Garden debut as a bridesmaid in "Le nozze di Figaro" in 1963 and Barbarina in the same opera the following year, going on to sing a wide range of roles at the Royal Opera House, from a Page in "Lohengrin", Berta in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", a niece in "Peter Grimes", Amor in "Orfeo ed Euridice", Karolka in "Jenůfa", Ascanius in "The Trojans", Emma in "Khovanshchina", A Flower Maiden in "Parsifal", Mercédès in "Carmen", Feódor in "Boris Godunov" and two roles in the world premiere of "We Come to the River".