Waltraud Meier's farewell

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Photo: Ronan Farrow.

Waltraud Meier, perhaps the supreme Kunstdiva of our day, gave her final stage performance tonight at the Staatsoper Berlin, reprising one of the landmark creations of her career — Klytemnestra in the Patrice Chéreau production of Elektra. There was apparently quite a scene in the house. Beforehand, Ben Miller interviewed Meier for the New York Times.