Die Frau ohne Schatten
Within a few months, however, Parly was starring in Continental theatres, including Aachen where he sang Radamès in "Aïda". In the next few seasons, he would become acclaimed as one of the world's leading Heldentenors, appearing at Brussels ("Les contes d'Hoffmann" staged by Maurice Béjart, 1961), Wuppertal (as Mephisto in Busoni's "Doktor Faust" and in "Peter Grimes", 1962), Lisbon (the Kaiser in "Die Frau ohne Schatten", 1962; and Herodes in "Salome", 1975), Kassel ("Die Frau ohne Schatten" and "Siegfried", 1962; and "Tannhäuser" conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi, 1964), Amsterdam ("Doktor Faust", 1962; and as Prince Chouïsky in "Boris Godunov", 1989), and Vienna (Ariadne auf Naxos, 1965; Der fliegende Holländer, 1967; and Einem's "Der Besuch der alten Dame", 1973).