A Met Brünnhilde is found dead
mainJanis Martin, who commanded major Wagner roles at the Met, has been found dead by a visitor at her home in San Antonio, Texas. She was 75. There were no suspicious circumstances.
A Californian, she sang 147 times at the Met, from 1962 to 1997. She also sang with the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1971 to 1988 and at Bayreuth from 1968 to 1997 in 10 different roles.
With Claudio Abbado during 1980 rehearsals for Schoenberg’s Erwartung
Long associated with Wolfgang Sawallisch, from a 1967 Tannhäuser in Milan to a 1992 Die Frau ohne Schatten in Nagoya, the latter now on DVD.
How sad. I remember her as a wonderful Isolde opposite Jon Vickers at the Chicago Lyric in the late 1970s. RIP
I saw her as Kundry at Bayreuth in 1996 and she was magnificent (as was Poul Elming, her Parsifal). A great Wagnerian. R.I.P.