Griffel, Kay (1940– )

US soprano. She studied with Lotte Lehman and made her debut in Chicago in 1960, as Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen. She appeared in German opera houses and sang at Salzburg in 1973, in the first performance of Orff's De Temporum fine Comoedia. In 1976–77 she sang at Glyndebourne, as Alice Ford, and in 1977 made a tour of Japan with the Berlin Staatsoper as the Marschallin and Mozart's Countess. She performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House from 1982, as Elettra, Rosalinde, Arabella, the Countess, and Tatiana. She sang Wagner's Eva at Wellington in 1990.