Claudia Hellmann

Claudia Hellmann
Occupation	Classical contralto
Organization	Stuttgart Opera

Claudia Hellmann is a German contralto singer in opera and concert.

Hellmann studied voice in her city of birth, Berlin, with Erika Garski. She made her operatic debut in 1958 at the Bayreuth Festival in the parts of Wellgunde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, 4. Edelknabe in Lohengrin and 1. Knappe in Parsifal. She sang there annually until 1961, including the part of Waltraute in Götterdämmerung in 1960. She was a member of the State Theatre of Münster from 1958 to 1960, the Stuttgart Opera, from 1966 the opera house of Nürnberg, and she returned to Stuttgart in 1975, singing there until 1983.

Hellmann frequently performed the contralto part in the recordings of Bach's cantatas, his Christmas Oratorio and his Easter Oratorio with the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and Fritz Werner. She recorded Bach's Magnificat and his Missa in F major with Karl Ristenpart, the Chorale Philippe Caillard, the Saar Radio Chamber Orchestra (), Edith Selig, Georg Jelden, Jakob Stämpfli and Maurice André (trumpet) in 1964.

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