Wilke te Brummelstroete  Wilke te Brummelstroete is a Dutch mezzo-soprano. She has recorded Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner and appeared as the valkyrie Siegrune in Wagner's "Die Walküre" at the Bayreuth Festival. Te Brummelstroete was born in Doetinchem. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and made her debut on the opera stage as Dido in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in 1991. Her roles in Monteverdi operas have included Proserpina in "L'Orfeo", Melanto, Minerva and Penelope in "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", and Ottavia in "L'incoronazione di Poppea". Her parts in Handel operas were Ruggiero in "Alcina", Storgè in "Jephtha", Tirinto in "Imeneo", and both Juno and Ino in "Semele",among others. She performed Tamerlano in Vivaldi’s "Bajazet" and Costanza in Haydn's "L'isola disabitata". In romantic music, she has sung in Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" and appeared as Bizet's Carmen, sang in Verdi's Requiem, and in the oratorios "The Kingdom" by Elgar, Berlioz’s "Les nuits d'été" by Berlioz, and "Il tramonto" by Ottorino Respighi. She performed at the Netherlands Opera in 1997 in Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites". She sang in 1997 the leading part of Turno in the Dutch premiere of Giovanni Bononcini's "Il Trionfo di Carnilla" as part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival. She appeared as The Neighbour in Stravinsky's "Mavra" at the Holland Festival in 1997. She was Teseo in Handel's "Arianna in Creta" at the Göttingen Handel Festival of 1999, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, and Andronico in his "Tamerlano". She performed Mother Goose in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress". Te Brummelstroete has collaborated with Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century on international tours, performing for example Mozart's Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.