Welting, Ruth

Welting, Ruth
▪ 2000

      American opera singer who was admired for the ease in which she used her lilting soprano to perform for more than 20 years, primarily at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, a wide range of coloratura roles, notably Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the Queen of the Night in Wolfgang Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), and Olympia in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann; Welting, who began to taper off her engagements in 1994, went on to study government and foreign affairs. (b. May 1, 1948, Memphis, Tenn.—d. Dec. 16, 1999, Asheville, N.C.).

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