Roberta Knie

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Roberta Knie (born 1938), was one of the most important American sopranos of the 1970s and early 1980s. Knie excelled in the operas of Richard Wagner. She was a regular guest at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1976 in Elektra by Richard Strauss. She was a celebrated Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, and noted for her strong and clear timbre. She studied voice with Eva Turner and Max Lorenz.

Knie is currently a highly regarded vocal coach whose students are performing in major theaters throughout the Western Hemisphere and Eastern Europe.

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