Ewing sang 96 performances for the Metropolitan Opera, including starring in director and then-husband Peter Hall's 1986 production of 'Carmen.'
and starred as Blanche de la Force in a new John Dexter production of Poulenc’sWozzeck
in 1997, a span that included a six-year interruption triggered by a spat with Met artistic director James Levine.at Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival directed by Hall and led by conductor Bernard Haitink. Ewing married Hall, a founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and then director of Britain’s National Theatre, in 1982.
Four years later, her husband directed her at the Met where she sang the title role in a new staging of Bizert’s“Far from the usual attempt at a fiery sexpot, her Carmen was easily bored, even sullen, her come-hither being a challenge to men to awaken her interest,” Associated Press critic Mary Campbell wrote.with her, then broadcast a 1987 performance of the production starring Agnes Baltsa.