Bayreuth’s French mezzo dies at 87

Bayreuth’s French mezzo dies at 87

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norman lebrecht

May 30, 2019

Operanostalgia reports the death of Michèle Vilma, a mezzo from Rouen who sang Waltraut at Bayreuth in Die Walküre in 1972 and, two years later, Brangäne at the Met in Tristan und Isolde.

She starred for much of her career at La Monnaie in Brussels, and across France.


 

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