- She also made guest appearances in Milan, Paris, London, etc.
- She made her stage debut in Kaiserslautern as Philine in Mignon, in 1948, and then sang in Karlsruhe (1950-53).
- Erika Köth appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival (1955-64), as the Queen of the Night and Konstanze and Sophie, and in Bayreuth (1965-68), as the Woodbird.
- Her repertory included: Susanna, Zerlina, Sophie, Despina, Queen of the Night, Lucia, Gilda, Stravinsky's Le Rossignol, and The Rake's Progress.
- Her discography also includes many operetta and lieder recordings.
- She made her debut at the Munich State Opera and the Vienna State Opera in 1953, and at the Berlin State Opera in 1961.
- She can be seen on black-and-white video in the role of Rosina in a complete German performance of The Barber of Seville with Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey, and Hans Hotter, and in a German performance of Don Giovanni, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Donald Grobe, Walter Berry, and Josef Greindl.
- Köth began a musical studies in Darmstadt with Elsa Blank in 1942, and after an interruption resumed them in 1945.
- Erika Köth was a German operatic coloratura soprano, particularly associated with the roles of Zerbinetta and Zerlina.
- She had a small but piercing voice of great agility with a range extending remarkably high.
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