- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 9, 1956
- Place of Birth
- Würzburg, Germany
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 year…
Filmography
movieLohengrin
2019 · Ortrud
movieStrauss: Elektra
2016 · Klytaemnestra
movieWagner: Götterdämmerung
2014 · Waltraute/Zweite Norn
movieWagner: Die Walküre
2013 · Sieglinde
movieElektra
2013 · Klytämnestra
![Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/feePszLs8mUfcbW4012tl1ReUiw.jpg)
movieMahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra]
2013 · Self - Mezzo
movieWagner: Götterdämmerung
2012 · Waltraude
movieStrauss R: Elektra
2010 · Klytämnestra
Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
movieFaszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen
2009 · Self
movieTannhäuser
2009 · Venus
movieWaltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
2008 · Self
movieTristan und Isolde
2007 · Isolde
movieFidelio
2006 · Leonore
movieLohengrin
2006 · Ortrud
movieParsifal
2005 · Kundry
movieParsifal's Progress
2005 · Self / Kundry
Alpha Forum
tvAlpha Forum
1998 · Self
Lebensläufe
tvLebensläufe
1998 · Self
movieTristan und Isolde
1998 · Isolde
movieCarmen
1997 · Carmen
movieThe Transformation of the World Into Music
1996 · Self
Cavalleria rusticana
movieCavalleria rusticana
1996 · Santuzza
movieMetropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996 · Self
movieVerdi: Don Carlos
1996 · La Princesse Eboli
movieTristan und Isolde
1995 · Isolde
movieWozzeck
1994 · Marie
movieWagner: Tannhäuser
1994 · Venus
movieRichard Wagner: Parsifal
1993 · Kundry
movieParsifal
1992 · Kundry
movieThe Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
1991 · Waltraude
movieCarmen
1988 · Carmen