Particularly admired for her portrayal of Wagner and Strauss heroines, she notably sang Br*nnhilde under Marek Janowski on the 1982 recording of The Ring Cycle which won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Altmeyer studied with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara and later at Salzburg. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1970 and the Illinois Opera Guild Auditions in 1971, she made her d*but at the Metropolitan Opera as the Heavenly Voice in Verdi's Don Carlos on 25 September 1971.
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Lotte Lehmann