She studied and performed in Germany, singing at the Bayreuth Festival the leading role of Elsa in Lohengrin and Sieglinde in Die Walküre, and made an international career.
[2][3][4] She performed in 1982 the role of Elvira in Auber's Die Stumme von Portici, conducted by Siegfried Köhler,[5] Sinaide, the pharao's wife, in Rossini's Mosè, alongside Eike Wilm Schulte as the pharao,[6] and Micaela in Bizet's Carmen,[7] Later she performed also major roles in Wagner stage works.
[4] She became a member of the Cologne Opera in 1985 and received attention in her début in the title part of Janáceks Káťa Kabanová,[1] staged by Harry Kupfer and conducted by Gerd Albrecht.
[2] Secunde recorded the part of Miss Jessel in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw in 1993, a production of the Aldeburgh Festival conducted by Steuart Bedford, and alongside Philip Langridge as Quint.
"[13] In 2002, she recorded the title role of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on DVD, in a production of the Teatro Liceo conducted by Alexander Anisimov.