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Altmeyer studied with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara and later at Salzburg.
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Jeannine Altmeyer
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After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1970 and the Illinois Opera Guild Auditions in 1971, she made her début at the Metropolitan Opera as the Heavenly Voice in Verdi"s Don Carlos on 25 September 1971. She sang Freia at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972), Salzburg Easter Festival (1973) and Covent Garden (1975). After several seasons at Stuttgart (1975–1979) she sang Sieglinde and Gutrune in Patrice Chéreau"s production of the The Ring Cycle (1979) at the Bayreuth Festival, where she also sang Isolde (1986).
Apart from her Wagnerian roles (which also include Elsa, Eva, Elisabeth, Gutrune and Brünnhilde), Altmeyer sang Agathe (Der Freischütz), Strauss"s Ariadne, Salome and Chrysothemis, Lisa (The Queen of Spades) and Leonore (Fidelio), which she sang at Louisiana Scala in 1990.
