 For the Opera Company of Boston, the tenor appeared in Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten" in 1982 and in Janáček's "The Makropoulos Case" in 1986, both conducted and directed by Sarah Caldwell.Cochran returned to the Met as Bacchus in "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss, with Jessye Norman in the title role, in 1984.The singing-actor was a member of the Oper Frankfurt for several years.