 Returning to Britain following the Second World War, she sang at the Royal Opera House from 1947 to 1950, as Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni", Leonora in "Il trovatore" and the title role in Puccini's "Tosca", and there she created the role of Diana in Arthur Bliss's "The Olympians".She sang Lady Macbeth at the 1947 Edinburgh Festival, since issued on CD.In 1948, she recorded the Sleepwalking Scene from "Macbeth" conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, but the scene's final floated high D-flat was "ghost-sung" by the English coloratura soprano Dorothy Bond.