 There have been fully ten recordings of her Kundry released commercially, most associated with the Bayreuth Festival, all from 1949–59.Although she is most known for her portrayals of Wagner's major heroines from 1951–55, her continuous performing career (as mezzo-soprano after the 1950s) lasted in excess of half a century, well into the singer's eighties, through which her acting abilities remained intact.Mödl spent much of her early life as a bookkeeper and secretary in Nuremberg.