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.
Known for
Credits
Götterdämmerung (2012)
as Waltraude
Götterdämmerung (2013)
as Waltraute/Zweite Norn
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)
as Self
Salome - Wiener Staatsoper (2020)
as Herodias
Parsifal (1992)
as Kundry
Götterdämmerung - Wiener Staatsoper (2019)
as Waltraute
The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
as Self
Götterdämmerung - Wiener Staatsoper (2017)
as Waltraute
Wozzeck (1994)
as Marie
Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper (2020)
as Klytämnestra
Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me (2008)
as Self
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen (2009)
as Self
Tannhäuser (2009)
as Venus
The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung (1991)
as Waltraude
Strauss R: Elektra (2010)
as Klytämnestra
Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)
as La Princesse Eboli
Cavalleria rusticana (1997)
as Santuzza
Strauss: Elektra (2016)
as Klytaemnestra
Carmen (1988)
as Carmen
Wagner: Die Walküre (2013)
as Sieglinde
Lohengrin (2018)
as Ortrud
Carmen (1997)
as Carmen
Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)
as Kundry
Lohengrin (2006)
as Ortrud
Tristan und Isolde (1995)
as Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (1998)
as Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (2007)
as Isolde
Parsifal's Progress (2005)
as Self / Kundry
Elektra (2013)
as Klytämnestra
![Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/feePszLs8mUfcbW4012tl1ReUiw.jpg)
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra] (2013)
as Self - Mezzo
Fidelio (2006)
as Leonore
Wagner: Tannhäuser (1994)
as Venus
Parsifal (2005)
as Kundry