Das Rheingold
Reynolds first sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968–69, as Flosshilde in Wagner's "Das Rheingold", and she returned in the 1975 "Ring cycle" as Fricka in "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre", and Waltraute and the Second Norn in "Götterdämmerung". At the Bayreuth Festival, she first appeared in 1970 as Fricka and sang regularly through 1976. Also in 1970 she first performed at the Salzburg Festival in the "Ring cycle", conducted by Herbert von Karajan.