Waltraud Meier
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Grammy Award winner Waltraud Meier is a German dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus, Fricka, and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen, and Santuzza. She resides in Munich.
Meier has performed in the world's famed opera houses (including La Scala, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Colón Theater). She performed Wagner at the Mecca of Wagner performance, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. She has performed under the batons of conductors including Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Waltraud Meier was born in Würzburg, Germany. She sang in various choral groups during her younger years. Upon finishing her secondary education, she began graduate studies in English and Romance Languages while also taking voice lessons. She studied singing with Professor Dietger Jacob. In 1976, she decided to concentrate on a singing career and soon thereafter debuted at the Würzburg Opera as Lola in Cavalleria rusticana. Over the next several years she performed regularly at the opera house in Mannheim (1976–78). She resides in Germany.
Como Actor/Actriz
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
Self
Strauss R: Elektra
Klytämnestra
Strauss: Elektra
Klytaemnestra
Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere
Self
Tristan und Isolde
Isolde
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Waltraute/Zweite Norn
Carmen
Carmen
Carmen
Carmen
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Venus
Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
Self
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Waltraude
Parsifal
Kundry
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung
Waltraude
Wozzeck
Marie
Lohengrin
Ortrud
Lohengrin
Ortrud
Elektra
Klytämnestra
Tristan und Isolde
Isolde
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Kundry
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]
Self - Mezzo
Fidelio
Leonore
Tristan und Isolde
Isolde
Tannhäuser
Venus
Parsifal
Kundry
Wagner: Die Walküre
Sieglinde
Verdi: Don Carlos
La Princesse Eboli
Parsifal's Progress
Self / Kundry