Waltraud Meier
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.
Fidelio
as LeonoreTwo years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose...
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Strauss: Elektra
as KlytaemnestraThe great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of...
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
as HerselfThis tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here...
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Tristan und Isolde
as IsoldeThe legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this...
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Elektra
as KlytämnestraLast production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most...
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Carmen
as CarmenLive performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.
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Strauss R: Elektra
as KlytämnestraThe Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung
as WaltraudeRing Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the...
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Verdi: Don Carlos
as La Princesse EboliLuc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in...
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Wagner: Die Walküre
as SieglindeRichard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das...
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
as SelfThis film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television....
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Wozzeck
as MarieFranz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is...
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Tristan und Isolde
as IsoldeThe Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan...
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Parsifal
as KundryRecorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor....
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Parsifal's Progress
as herself, KundryA documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the...
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
as Waltraute/Zweite NornGötterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human...
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Lohengrin
as OrtrudAfter Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this...
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Lohengrin
as OrtrudAt the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable...
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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
as KundryThe Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also...
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Tristan und Isolde
as uncreditedPeter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic...
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Parsifal
as KundryParsifal represents the culmination of Wagner's work as a revolutionary composer of opera. In...
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The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
as WaltraudeTHIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion...
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Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
as SelfWaltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal...
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