Bel canto
In recent years, Anderson has returned occasionally to her prior roles – appearing in "Lucia" in São Paulo in 2000 and Athens in 2002, "La traviata" at the Metropolitan Opera in 2001, and new productions of "La sonnambula" (Opéra de Marseille, 2004) and "Maometto II" (Bilbao, 2005). She continues to appear as "Norma", in Parma in and Teatro Colón 2001, and at the Opéra de Marseille and the Canadian Opera Company in 2006. Of that latter performance, Toronto's "The Globe and Mail" wrote: Bel canto is a term too often bandied about, but it does mean what it says: beautiful singing, but beautiful as distinct from merely pretty; beautiful not only in its musical sensitivity and accuracy of pitch in the face of extreme vocal challenges devised by the composer, but also in its penetration and detailed communication of the emotions encompassed in the music and drama. It was all this that June Anderson's Norma comprehended and conveyed. . . .