Waltraud Meier "Liebestod" Tristan Und Isolde Scala 2007

I believe she´s a mezzo soprano

Is she a mezzo or soprano?, Does a mezzo can sing this amazing aria?

This is my favourite opera of them all and I just can't help but cry, everytime I hear this, hauntingly and agonisingly poetic and beautiful. Soul stiring music!

A superb performance by Meier and the orchestra directed by maestro Barenboim!
Thank goodness it was recorded so that we may enjoy Wagner at his best.

Sensational! Right up there with the very best. Brava! TY.

i love this aria and i find she's the isolde. one word : bravo!!!

WOW!! Brava!! : )

Waltraud is the Isolde of my dreams. I would share a potion with her any day even if it meant getting stabbed as a chaser.

She is such a superb actress. The camera couldn't have been closer. There was not a hint of artifice in her performance - in spite of the huge physical effort of singing this incredible music.

ps. le scenografie di peduzzi sono quanto di meglio ci si potesse aspettare. davvero splendide.

una produzione bellissima. direzione, scenografie, interpreti, regìa tutto splendido!

Regarding Barenboim's reaction at the end: there were a huge amount of 'bravo', which in Italian is masculine and was therefore addressed to Barenboim. Soon after, you can hear a woman shouting 'bravi', in the plural that is. Sorry to disappoint you, but nobody (as far as this video goes) shouted 'brava', to Waldraud that is. In Italy we just don't use 'bravo' generically as it happens abroad. Nevertheless, she would have definitively deserved many!

Anybody knowing if this ARTE production is on sale at ARTE? Or other resources?

I have seen Meier and Barenboim two weeks ago in Berlin - stellar! But what makes clip so unique is Barenboim's reaction when he has just closed the last sound, still caught in the intensity of the dying music when - without a second of stillness - the first Bravas burst out. He seems to shout Ouch! in irritation and defense, yet gets the appreciation of the crowd, all this going on in his face within the fraction of a second. Barenboim for me without doubt one of the greatest living musicians!

When she and I were both students in Wurzburg, the first time I heard her in a lesson whe had the darkest alto voice I had ever heard in my young years. When she went to Koln and retrained in the soprano rep I thought to myself she will never make it. We've sung together a couple of times over the years and she is always amazing.