Wagner: Die Walküre

Wagner: Die Walküre

238 mins | Music | Nov. 4, 2013

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend. Musically and dramatically, we are introduced to a radically new and different world when the opening bars of Die Walküre resound. A fully developed orchestral palette of Leitmotivs paints a wild storm scene, and the curtain rises on a modest dwelling: a fully human scene that has nothing to do with the gods, dwarves and nymphs of Das Rheingold. At the same time, however, the way Die Walküre portrays radical beginnings reveals some telling reminiscences of the unfolding of Das Rheingold. Die Walküre is exciting and deeply feeling drama.

Wagner: Die Walküre

238 mins | Music | Nov. 4, 2013

Wagner: Die Walküre
Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend. Musically and dramatically, we are introduced to a radically new and different world when the opening bars of Die Walküre resound. A fully developed orchestral palette of Leitmotivs paints a wild storm scene, and the curtain rises on a modest dwelling: a fully human scene that has nothing to do with the gods, dwarves and nymphs of Das Rheingold. At the same time, however, the way Die Walküre portrays radical beginnings reveals some telling reminiscences of the unfolding of Das Rheingold. Die Walküre is exciting and deeply feeling drama.
Producers RAI, Teatro alla Scala, Arthaus Musik, Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Original title Wagner: Die Walküre
Directors Guy Cassiers
Writers

Cast

Simon O’Neill

as Siegmund

John Tomlinson

as Hunding

Vitalij Kowaljow

as Wotan

Waltraud Meier

as Sieglinde

Nina Maria Stemme

as Brünnhilde

Ekaterina Gubanova

as Fricka