Martha Mödl was a German soprano who later became a mezzo-soprano. She was known for her dramatic roles, in particular the Wagnerian characters Isolde, Kundry, and Brünnhilde.

German opera director Wieland Wagner noticed Mödl in the role of Venus, and she was invited to Bayreuth in 1951 to play the role of Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal. As such: Martha Mödl became part of a group of singers known as the 'New Bayreuth', sometimes sharing roles with well-known Wagnerian heroic soprano Astrid Varnay.
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Selected recordings of Martha Mödl:
1949 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Richard Kraus
1950 Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor by Otto Nicolai
1950 Elektra by Richard Strauss Dimitri Mitropoulos
1950 Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi Joseph Keilberth
1950 Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky Wilhelm Schüchter
1950 Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Eugen Szenkár
1951 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1951 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1951 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1951 Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi Fritz Busch
1951 Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky
1952 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1952 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1952 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1952 Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss Leopold Ludwig
1952 Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner Herbert von Karajan
1952 La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
1952/54 Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner Arthur Rother
1953 Fidelio by Ludwig Van Beethoven Wilhelm Furtwängler
1953 Fidelio by Ludwig Van Beethoven Herbert von Karajan
1953 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1953 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Clemens Krauss
1953 Siegfried by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1953 Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1953 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler
1953 Siegfried by Richard Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler
1953 Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler
1953 Fidelio by Ludwig Van Beethoven Wilhelm Furtwängler
1954 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1954 Walküre (Die) by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1954 Walküre (Die) by Richard Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler
1955 Fidelio by Ludwig Van Beethoven Karl Böhm
1955 Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1955 Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Joseph Keilberth
1955 Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
1956 Antigonae by Carl Orff Ferdinand Leitner
1956 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1956 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1956 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Eugen Jochum
1956 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Eugen Jochum
1957 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1957 Penthesilea by Othmar Schoeck Ferdinand Leitner
1957 Siegfried by Richard Wagner Fritz Stiedry
1957 Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky Eugen Jochum
1959 Parsifal by Richard Wagner Hans Knappertsbusch
1959 Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner Ferdinand Leitner
1960 Die Walküre by Richard Wagner Ferdinand Leitner
1963 Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss Joseph Keilberth
1963 Elegy for Young Lovers by Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze
1964 Elektra by Richard Strauss Arnold Quennet
1964 Bluthochzeit by Wolfgang Fortner Ferdinand Leitner
1964 Elektra by Richard Strauss Herbert von Karajan
1964 Jenufa by Leos Janácek Jaroslav Krombholc
1965 Elektra by Richard Strauss Antal Dorati
1966 Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi Nino Sanzogno
1967 Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Karl Böhm
1967 Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill Ferdinand Leitner
1968 The Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan Curt Cremer
1968 Lulu by Alban Berg Karl Böhm
1968 The Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan Franz Marszalek
1969 Zweihunderttausend Taler by Boris Blacher Heinrich Hollreiser