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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- 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)
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