She went on to the great dramatic Verdi roles including Abigaile in "Nabucco", Lady Macbeth, Leonora in "Il trovatore", Amelia in "Un ballo in maschera", and Elena in "I vespri siciliani". Other roles which were captured in commercial recordings include Giselda in "I Lombardi" and Odabella in "Attila". Finally, she sang the title roles in Cherubini's "Médée" and Puccini's "Turandot". Deutekom decided to end her stage career on the last day of 1986, after suffering heart problems during a performance of the opera "Amaya" in Bilbao. She turned to giving master classes internationally. She made a return in November 1996 at the Concertgebouw , at the age of 65 singing the Bolero from "I vespri siciliani" and Anna Elisa's aria "" from the operetta "Paganini", reportedly "bringing the house down". As of 2001, she was a guest teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, but after suffering a stroke in 2004, she retired from public life. She married Jacob "Jaap" Deutekom, a boxer, in 1952 and they had a daughter, Irma Deutekom, born in 1955. She died on 7 August 2014 after a fall in her home.