Wilhelmine Ritter (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wilhelmine Ritter was a German operatic mezzo-soprano. Not much is known about the artist and the details about her birth and training are unknown. She was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1866 through 1871. While there she notably created the roles of Flosshilde in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold on 22 September 1869 and Grimgerde (one of the Valkyries) in Wagner's Die Walk re on 26 June 1869. Her last performance at the house was as Orfeo in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in 1871.