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person_profile-Waltraud Meier

Waltraud Meier Age: 69

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Waltraud Meier

Date of Birth:

Jan 09, 1956

Country of birth:

Germany

Biography of

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.

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Waltraud Meier

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Filmography of

Waltraud Meier

Found 23 Movies in total

Lohengrin

Ortrud ( Actor )

... 2019

Strauss: Elektra

Klytaemnestra ( Actor )

... 2016

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Waltraute/Zweite Norn ( Actor )

... 2014

Wagner: Die Walküre

Sieglinde ( Actor )

... 2013

Elektra

Klytämnestra ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

Strauss R: Elektra

Klytämnestra ( Actor )

... 2010

Tannhäuser

Venus ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2008

Tristan und Isolde

Isolde ( Actor )

... 2007

Fidelio

Leonore ( Actor )

... 2006

Lohengrin

Ortrud ( Actor )

... 2006

Parsifal's Progress

herself, Kundry ( Actor )

... 2005

Carmen

Carmen ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1996

... 1996

Verdi: Don Carlos

La Princesse Eboli ( Actor )

... 1996

Tristan und Isolde

Isolde ( Actor )

... 1995

Wozzeck

Marie ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1993

... 1991

Carmen

Carmen ( Actor )

... 1988

Wagner: Tannhäuser

Venus ( Actor )

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