A red carpet is rolled out at the Berlin State Opera. It is the carpet that director Patrice Chéreau lays for Clytemnestra in his production of “Elektra”. This evening it is also the red carpet for the singer who says goodbye in this role: Waltraud Meier. The 67-year-old has been on stage for almost half a century, since she was only twenty years old without studying singing and was hired at the city theater in her hometown of Würzburg, worked her way into major roles at the National Theater in Mannheim, and began a world career that nevertheless had its epicenter in the Franconian one Province: at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.
And goodbye: The singer Waltraud Meier says goodbye to the stage. – Culture
