Gertrude Rünger was a German soprano represented in the Pristine catalogue through Clemens Krauss’s 1935 recording of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos.

Her wider public biographical trail is limited, so this note is kept close to the recording evidence.

Strauss’s operatic world asks even smaller roles to be sharply characterised, with clear German diction and enough vocal personality to register inside a refined ensemble.

This page gives a securely identified catalogue artist a compact marker in the early Strauss recording strand.