Ortrun Wenkel
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1942-10-25
- Active to
- 2025-12-21
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Ortrun Wenkel (Contralto) Born: October 25, 1942 - Buttstädt/Thuringia or Heidelberg, Germany The German contralto, Ortrun Wenkel, studied at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar, at the College of Music in Frankfurt a.M. with Paul Lohmann and Elsa Cavelti. Ortrun Wenkel began her career in 1964 as concert and oratorio soloist. She dedicated herself above all to the Baroque music, and appeared in major international festivals (English Bach Festival, Festival of Marais, Festival of Flan
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Buttstädt
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Instrument
- voice
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- Ortrun Wenkel Erda Karlsruhe.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- 1937-10-25
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- 2025-12-14
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