I love discovering singers I’d never previously heard…or even heard of.
The German mezzo-soprano Ute Walther (above) made her operatic debut as Octavian at Staatstheater Schwerin in 1968. From 1980, she was a leading artist with the Dresden State Opera.
Her roles included Dorabella, Cherubino, Strauss’s Composer, Wagner’s Fricka, Waltraute, Brangäne, Magdalene, Mary, and Ortrud; Hansel, Carmen, Prince Orlofsky, and Verdi’s Amneris, Meg Page, and Princess Eboli.
Ms. Walther also appeared with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden State Opera, at the Cologne Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, the Bolshoi, the Edinburgh Festival, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon.
She was also a noted concert singer, admired especially for her Bach interpretations.
Ms. Walther’s 1989 rendering of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder may be heard here. The orchestra of RAI Turin is conducted by Wolfgang Rennert.
Oberon's Glade 