THE DRAMATIC CONTRALTO

Here is a poster showing Gweneth Bean as Erda the Earth Mother in a Met production of Wagner's opera Siegfried, the third opera of the monumental Ring of the Nibelungs, in which she appears at least once in every one of the operas. Her warning to Wotan in the first opera of the series, Das Rheingold, is indeed a challenging role for a dramatic contralto.

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