Acting
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.
Filmography
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Lebensläufe
Strauss: Elektra
The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazin...
Carmen
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who br...
Carmen
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More d...
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
Documentary about female opera stars.
The Transformation of the World Into Music
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the b...
Elektra
Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event...
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essen...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabul...
Fidelio
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes...
Parsifal
Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhof...
Tristan und Isolde
The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as...
Tristan und Isolde
The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Ri...
Wagner: Die Walküre
Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the...
The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Si...
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whol...
Strauss R: Elektra
The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in...
Lohengrin
At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner'...
Parsifal's Progress
A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus...
Lohengrin
After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth i...
Wozzeck
Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of a...
Verdi: Don Carlos
Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven...
Tannhäuser
Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a...
Wagner: Tannhäuser
David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with...
Parsifal
This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointm...
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]
Following the first instalment from this series Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 will continue the release of the complete...
Tristan und Isolde
Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. A...
Cavalleria rusticana
A staging of the opera by Mascagni.