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Waltraud Meier
Waltraud Meier, born on 9 January 1956 in Würzburg, Germany, is a German
mezzo‑soprano opera singer. After studying with Dieter Jacob, among others, she
began her career in 1976 and debuted as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. Her
breakthrough came with the role of Kundry in Parsifal at the 1983 Bayreuth
Festival. Over the following decades, she recorded landmark albums such as
Wagner: Parsifal (1985), Mahler: Das Klagende Lied (1992), and Wagner: Die
Walküre (2003), working with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, James
Levine, and Zubin Mehta. Meier received several German and B...
