Waltraud Meier
Waltraud Meier (born 9 January 1956) is a German retired 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. She has been named a "Kammersängerin" by both the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna State Opera, and "Commandeur" of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
Genre: opera
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Top Tracks
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3: Liebestod. "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isolde)
- Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123: Agnus Dei
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3: "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isolde)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Westwärts schweift der Blick" (Isolde, Brangäne, A young sailor)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Frisch weht der Wind" (A young sailor, Isolde, Brangäne, Kurwenal, Tristan, Chorus)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "So starben wir, um ungetrennt" (Isolde, Tristan, Brangäne)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "Lausch, Geliebter!" (Isolde, Tristan)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe" (Isolde, Tristan)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Den als Tantris unerkannt ich entlassen" (Isolde, Brangäne)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden!" (Brangäne, Isolde)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "O eitler Tagesknecht!" (Isolde, Tristan)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "Isolde! Geliebte!... Tristan! Geliebter!" (Tristan, Isolde)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "Hörst du sie noch?" (Isolde, Brangäne)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Tristan!... Isolde!" (Isolde, Tristan, Brangäne, Kurwenal, Chor)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "War Morold dir so wert" (Tristan, Isolde, Chorus)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Herr Tristan trete nah!" (Isolde, Tristan)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 1: "Auf! Auf! Ihr Frauen!" (Kurwenal, Isolde, Brangäne)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2: "O König, das kann ich dir nicht sagen" (Tristan, Isolde, Melot)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3: "Ich bin's, ich bin's" (Isolde)
- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 3: "O diese Sonne!" (Tristan, Isolde)
Albums (40)
- Daniel Barenboim - The Conductor (2025-01-16)
- Mozart Effect for Brain Power (2024-10-04)
- Classical Bangers (2024-03-27)
- Les plus grands airs d'opéra (2024-03-02)
- Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata and Other Masterpieces (2024-02-22)
- Abbado A-Z: Vivaldi - Wagner + Galas & Recitals (2023-05-05)
- Abbado A-Z: Mahler (2023-03-03)
- Berliner Philharmoniker - Mozart (2021-08-13)
- 100 Best Beethoven (2019-09-20)
- The Very Best of Beethoven (2019-08-23)
- 100 Best Opera Classics (2019-04-12)
- Classical Hits (2016-10-19)
- Strauss, R.: Elektra (Live At Philharmonie, Berlin / 2014) (2014-01-01)
- The 50 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever (2013-01-01)
- 100 Best Berliner Philharmoniker (2011-03-07)
- 40 Most Beautiful Arias (2008-11-06)
- Lieder (2007-09-01)
- Best Beethoven 100 (2007-06-04)
- Wagner: Die Walküre (2003-07-01)
- Wagner: Tannhäuser (1970-01-01)
- Gustav Mahler: Orchesterlieder (1999-01-21)
- Brahms, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder (1998-02-01)
- Maazel Conducts Wagner (1970-01-01)
- Waltraud Meier Sings Wagner (1997-03-29)
- Wagner : Tristan und Isolde (1996-01-01)
- Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7 (1996-01-01)
- Verdi: Don Carlos (Live) (1996-01-01)
- Mahler: 10 Symphonies (1995-01-01)
- Wagner: Parsifal - Highlights (1995-01-01)
- Barenboim - Complete Wagner Operas (1970-01-01)
- Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (1994-01-01)
- Wagner: Lohengrin (1994-01-01)
- Verdi : Messa da Requiem (Elatus) (1970-01-01)
- Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 (1992-01-01)
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (1992-01-01)
- Meeting Venus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Highlights from Wagner’s Tannhäuser] (1991-01-01)
- Wagner : Parsifal (1970-01-01)
- Mahler, Wagner & Wolf : Orchestral Songs (Elatus) (1970-01-01)
- Mozart: Requiem (1987-01-01)
- Wagner: Lohengrin (Highlights) (1970-01-01)
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