Waltraud Meier

Lohengrin (2019)

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclu ...

Strauss: Elektra (2016)

The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss's blazing one-act drama, adapted from the ancient Greek myth. Patrice Chéreau's acclaimed production—the last staging he worked on before his death in ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2014)

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent creatures, involved with and possibly doomed by their traffic with the gods, find treachery and evil in the world of the huma ...

Elektra (2013)

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in Aix-en-Provence. This production is leaded by three amazing singers: the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius gave a tremend ...

Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Paavo Järvi, Waltraus Meier; Genia Kühmeier; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra] (2013)

Following the first instalment from this series Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 will continue the release of the complete Gustav Mahler symphony cycle with Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. The performances also feature the outstanding soloist ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2012)

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 dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place. ...

Strauss R: Elektra (2010)

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as Elektra, with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Chrysothemis, Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Robert Gambill as Aegisth, and ...

Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen (2009)

Documentary about female opera stars. ...

Tannhäuser (2009)

Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me (2008)

Waltraud Meier is "La Wagnerissima", the queen of Wagner's repertoire. In her very personal account "I follow a voice within me", we enter her world and learn about her motivations, aspirations, and her joyful way of pursuing them. In addition to personal ...

Tristan und Isolde (2007)

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological music drama Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro alla Scala in 2007. It stars Ian Storey, Waltraud Meier, Matti Salmine ...

Fidelio (2006)

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the prison over which Pizarro is governor. The jailer of the pr ...

Lohengrin (2006)

At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner's LOHENGRIN, the third of the German composer's main operas. This production stars an incredible cast, including Hans-Peter König, Klaus Florian ...

Parsifal (2005)

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

Parsifal's Progress (2005)

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips of the live performances provide a documentary analysis of the opera on the quest fo ...

Tristan und Isolde (1998)

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Ope ...

Carmen (1997)

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997. ...

The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)

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

Cavalleria rusticana (1996)

A staging of the opera by Mascagni. ...

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)

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 could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the premier ...

Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)

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 all-star cast, loaded with important singers either starting their careers (Roberto Alagna) or at the height o ...

Tristan und Isolde (1995)

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Staged by Heiner Müller, it stars Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Poul Elming and Uta Priew, and feature ...

Wozzeck (1994)

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

Wagner: Tannhäuser (1994)

David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal tech ...

Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

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 cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlie ...

Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera] (1992)

Parsifal (1992)

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the Berlin State Opera in 1992. The cast is made up of the finest Wagnerian singers of the period, all of whom en ...

The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung (1991)

THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde and fall in love with Günter's sister Gutrane. Siegfried has given Brünnhilde the Ring as a token of their love, ...

Carmen (1988)

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 and gripping drama in Bizet's score. At the center of the story is Agnes Baltsa, whose smoky mezzo is tailor-mad ...