Waltraute

Lovely mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch does a splendid, intensely affecting star turn as the distraught Valkyrie Waltraute—a role that might be too big for her voice.

Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire Judy Fayard 2011

Lovely mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch does a splendid, intensely affecting star turn as the distraught Valkyrie Waltraute—a role that might be too big for her voice.

Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire Judy Fayard 2011

Iain Paterson was a nasal, wimpy Gunther; Waltraud Meier brought character but not much sound to Waltraute.

And So the World Ended Heidi Waleson 2012

Andrea Silvestrelli was a resonant, gravelly voiced Hagen and Fasolt; Ms. Bishop a caustic, manipulative Fricka; Daveda Karanas brought theatrical intensity to her Waltraute in "Götterdämmerung"; and Stacey Tappan, Lauren McNeese and Renée Tatum made a particularly mellifluous, well-blended trio of Rhinemaidens.

Ring Around the Obvious Heidi Waleson 2011

Her acting remained wooden: when she declared to Waltraute that she has discovered passion, it seemed like a joke.

And So the World Ended Heidi Waleson 2012

Speaking of Wagner, Ms. von Otter is scheduled to sing the role of Waltraute in "Götterdämmerung" in July, under Simon Rattle at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France.

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Fricka: Stephanie Blythe, who also take Waltraute and the First Norn.

Archive 2007-08-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007

Bruennhilde refuses to part {70} with the token of her husband's love, and hardly has Waltraute departed, than fate overtakes her in the person of Siegfried, who ventures through the flames in Gunther's shape.

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There were, she told him, rehearsals not only for "Walkure," but also for "Gotterdammerung," in which she was to sing Waltraute two weeks later.

The song of the lark 1915

The Waltraute scene is fine, being largely made up of old material; but I cannot say much for the scene between Bruennhilda and Siegfried.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913