Waltraud Meier

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.

  • Title: Waltraud Meier
  • Popularity: 0.265
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1956-01-09
  • Place of Birth: Würzburg, Germany
  • Homepage: http://www.waltraud-meier.de/
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Waltraud Meier Movies

  • 1996
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    The Transformation of the World Into Music

    The Transformation of the World Into Music

    8.5 1996 HD

    This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

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  • 2008
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    Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me

    Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me

    1 2008 HD

    Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a voice within...

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  • 2009
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    Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen

    Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen

    1 2009 HD

    Documentary about female opera stars.

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  • 2012
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    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    1 2012 HD

    This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the...

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  • 1991
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    The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung

    The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung

    8.5 1991 HD

    THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde...

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  • 2005
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    Parsifal's Progress

    Parsifal's Progress

    1 2005 HD

    A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews,...

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  • 2010
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    Strauss R: Elektra

    Strauss R: Elektra

    10 2010 HD

    The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as...

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  • 1996
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    Verdi: Don Carlos

    Verdi: Don Carlos

    9.2 1996 HD

    Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an...

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  • 1992
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    Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera]

    Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera]

    1 1992 HD

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  • 1993
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    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    10 1993 HD

    The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring...

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  • 2013
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    Elektra

    Elektra

    6 2013 HD

    Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in...

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  • 2007
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    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde

    1 2007 HD

    The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological...

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  • 2009
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    Tannhäuser

    Tannhäuser

    7 2009 HD

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  • 1995
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    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde

    9 1995 HD

    The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele....

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  • 1996
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    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

    1 1996 HD

    This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I...

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  • 1997
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    1 1997 HD

    Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

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  • 1988
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    8.667 1988 HD

    This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion...

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  • 2005
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    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    1 2005 HD

    Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director.

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  • 2016
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    Strauss: Elektra

    Strauss: Elektra

    8 2016 HD

    The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from...

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  • 2006
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    Fidelio

    Fidelio

    1 2006 HD

    Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge,...

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  • 2006
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    Lohengrin

    Lohengrin

    1 2006 HD

    At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner's LOHENGRIN, the third of the German...

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  • 1996
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    Cavalleria rusticana

    Cavalleria rusticana

    1 1996 HD

    A staging of the opera by Mascagni.

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  • 1998
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    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde

    1 1998 HD

    Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich...

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  • 2012
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    The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung

    The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung

    8 2012 HD

    Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up...

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  • 2019
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    Lohengrin

    Lohengrin

    1 2019 HD

    After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive,...

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  • 1994
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    Wozzeck

    Wozzeck

    1 1994 HD

    Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress...

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  • 2013
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    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    1 2013 HD

    Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend....

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  • 2014
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    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    3 2014 HD

    Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent...

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  • 1970
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    Wagner: Tannhäuser

    Wagner: Tannhäuser

    1 1970 HD

    David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September...

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  • 1998
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    Alpha Forum

    Alpha Forum

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1998
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    Lebensläufe

    Lebensläufe

    1 1998 HD

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