Claudia Hellmann

Claudia Hellmann (25 November 1923 – 24 May 2017)[1] was a German contralto concert and operatic singer, primarily with the Stuttgart Opera.

Hellmann was born in Berlin on 25 November, 1923 , where she studied voice with Erika Garski.

[2] She made her operatic debut in 1958 at the Bayreuth Festival in the parts of Wellgunde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, 4.

[3] She recorded Bach's Magnificat and his Missa in F major with Karl Ristenpart, the Chorale Philippe Caillard, the Saar Radio Chamber Orchestra [de], Edith Selig, Georg Jelden, Jakob Stämpfli and Maurice André (trumpet) in 1964.

[4] In 1963, she recorded the part of Ismene in Orff's Antigonae with Inge Borkh as Antigonae, Kieth Engen as Chorführer, Hetty Plümacher as Eurydice, Fritz Uhl as Haemon, and Ernst Haefliger as Tiresias, Ferdinand Leitner conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir.