Kathrin Göring is a German operatic

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, a member of the

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who has appeared at other major opera houses, also in concert and recital, and made recordings. She has appeared in Leipzig in leading roles such as Bizet's ''

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'' and Wagner's ''

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''. She sang both Fricka and Waltraute in ''

Der Ring in Minden ''Der Ring in Minden'' was a project to stage Richard Wagner's cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' at the Stadttheater Minden, beginning in 2015 with ''Das Rheingold'', followed by the other parts in the succeeding years, and culminating with the com ...

''.

Life

Göring studied voice at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Jitka Kovariková and at the Musikhochschule Dresden with Hartmut Zabel. Even during her studies, she appeared on stage as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and in the title role of

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's ''Le nozze di Cherubino''. She has been a member of the

since the 2002/03 season, where she appeared as Kundry in Wagner's ''

'', the Mother in ''Hänsel und Gretel'', the Foreign Princess in Dvořák's ''

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'', in the title role of Bizet's ''

'' and as Clairon in '' Capriccio'' by Richard Strauss, among others. She has appeared there in Wagner's ''

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'' in several roles, as the goddess Fricka and the Rhinemaiden Wellgunde in ''

Das Rheingold ''Das Rheingold'' (; ''The Rhinegold''), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

'', as Fricka and the

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Waltraute in ''

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'', and as Waltraute and the Second

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in ''

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''. In the project ''

'', she also appeared as Fricka in ''Das Rheingold'' and ''Die Walküre'', and as Waltraute in ''Die Walküre'' and ''Götterdämmerung''. Reviews in ''Online Musik Magazin'' noted her rich voice and called her scene warning Brünnhilde in ''Götterdämmerung'' a musical highlight with intense dramatic acting. Göring sang as a guest at opera houses including the

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, Aalto Theater in Essen,

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and

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. Göring sings a broad repertoire of

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er and oratorios. In 2013, she appeared in the first performance in Germany and the first recording of

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, which had been assumed lost for decades. She sang with other soloists including Renatus Mészár, the

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, and the

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, conducted by

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