Ekkehard wlaschiha biography of barack
The Met&#;s Wagner villain has died, aged 80
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norman lebrecht
February 21,
We have been notified of the death of Ekkehard Wlaschiha, a notable Wagner baritone who sang Alberich at the Met&#;s PBS broadcast Ring in He won two Grammys for his Alberich recording.
His other specialist roles were Telramund, Dutchman and Klingsor.
An East German, he sang at Leipzig Oper until joining the Berlin state house in He was recruited at Bayreuth in and made his Met debut three years later.
He made his final Bayreuth appearance in Lohengrin only last summer.
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