Waltraud Meier

Personal Info

Birthday

January 9, 1956

(69 years old)

Place of Birth

Würzburg, Germany

Waltraud Meier

Biography

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.

Known For

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Elektra

The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung

Strauss: Elektra

The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung

Strauss R: Elektra

Tannhäuser

Wagner: Die Walküre

Filmography

2016
Strauss: Elektra
as Klytaemnestra
2014
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
as Waltraute/Zweite Norn
2013
Wagner: Die Walküre
as Sieglinde
Elektra
as Klytämnestra
2012
The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung
as Waltraude
2010
Strauss R: Elektra
as Klytämnestra
2009
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
as Self
Tannhäuser
as Venus
2008
Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
as Self
2007
Tristan und Isolde
as Isolde
2006
Fidelio
as Leonore
Lohengrin
as Ortrud
2005
Parsifal
as Kundry
Parsifal's Progress
as Self / Kundry
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
as Self
Cavalleria rusticana
as Santuzza
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
as Self
Verdi: Don Carlos
as La Princesse Eboli
1994
Wozzeck
as Marie
Wagner: Tannhäuser
as Venus
1993
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
as Kundry
1991
The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
as Waltraude
1988
Carmen
as Carmen