Ortrun Wenkel [7 releases]

Ortrun Wenkel

German operatic contralto (1942–2025)

Ortrun Wenkel-Rothe was a German operatic contralto. She notably portrayed the role of Erda in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring in 1976 and was awarded a Grammy Award as a principal soloist in 1983.

Continue reading at Wikipedia…
Wikipedia content provided under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA license

7 releases

[Album]

Handel: Serse, Hwv 40

George Frideric Handel + Carolyn Watkinson + Barbara Hendricks + Paul Esswood + Ortrun Wenkel + Anne-Marie Rodde + Ulrik Cold + Ulrich Studer + Ensemble Vocal Jean Bridier + La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy + Jean‐Claude Malgoire

January 20, 2017

[Album]

Der Evangelimann

Wilhelm Kienzl + Siegfried Jerusalem + Helen Donath + Roland Hermann + Ortrun Wenkel + Kurt Moll + Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks + Tölzer Knabenchor + Münchner Rundfunkorchester + Lothar Zagrosek

January 1, 1997

[Album]

Weihnachtskantaten BWV 1, 61, 40

Johann Sebastian Bach + Arleen Augér + Ortrun Wenkel + Peter Schreier + Siegfried Lorenz + Thomanerchor Leipzig + Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum + Hans-Joachim Rotzsch

January 1, 1997

[Album]

Daphne

Richard Strauss + Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks + Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks + Bernard Haitink + Lucia Popp + Reiner Goldberg + Peter Schreier + Ortrun Wenkel + Kurt Moll

January 1, 1988

[Album]

Symphony no. 14 / 6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович + Júlia Várady + Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau + Ortrun Wenkel + Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest + Bernard Haitink

January 1, 1986

[Album]

Stabat Mater

Antonín Dvořák + Gabriela Beňačková + Ortrun Wenkel + Peter Dvorský + Jan‐Hendrik Rootering + Pražský filharmonický sbor + Česká filharmonie + Wolfgang Sawallisch

January 1, 1982

[Album]

Symphony no. 3

Gustav Mahler + Klaus Tennstedt + London Philharmonic Orchestra + Ortrun Wenkel + Southend Boys’ Choir + London Philharmonic Choir

January 1, 1980

0:00