When the Met toured the production in Japan in 1997, she refused to wear it on the first night to which Volpe famously declared, "The wig is going on, with you or without you" and replaced her with an understudy.
Cando o Met realizou unha xira por Xapón en 1997, ela negouse a levala na primeira noite, e Volpe declarou: «A perruca continuará, con ou sen ti» e substituíuna por unha suplente.