In addition to Barak, Alfonso, Leporello and Ochs, his Met portrayals included Wotan in Wagner's "Walkure" and Pizarro in Beethoven's "Fidelio".
Her other film portrayals included the title role in Hedda (1975), a film adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen; The Incredible Sarah (1976); Stevie (1978); The Return of the Soldier (1982); and Turtle Diary (1985).
In recent seasons at the Met she has given vibrant portrayals, including those of a distraught Elvira in Bellini's "Puritani" and a feisty Norina in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," which revealed Ms. Netrebko's comic flair.
Gestural portrayals included pulling back in fear sporadically, arms clutched to chest or to their sides.
Negative SG portrayals, including cultural, political and health and safety risks, are more frequently mentioned in the Canadian newspapers.
Often in the absence of a real body with the warts and all, there is a tendency to shoehorn the other person into being an "ideal lover", and yet much of this idealism is a totally personal construct of your own making, built on the fragile foundations of selective answers, images and other online portrayals, including fast, giddy-inducing chat exchanges.
She won numerous honours for her portrayal, including an Academy Award, a César, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe.
"With any form of portrayal including the deaf in comics, we tend to see things very much from a hearing person's point of view," said Paul Dakin, a GP trainer from North London who studies deaf characters in literature, at a recent conference on comics and medicine.
The Clydesdale has obligingly kept on providing evidence to support that portrayal, including a very large portfolio of dud property loans.
