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Die Walküre
2006 0.0 (0 votes) 3h 49m
Genres
Music
Production Companies
Decca

Die Walküre

Copenhagen Ring Cycle 2006. Der Ring des Nibelungen: Erster Tag - Die Walküre.

Overview

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story of the opera is based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.[1][2] In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one in a group of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live. Die Walküre's best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries". DVD release June 2009.

Key Crew

Writer: Richard Wagner

Director: Kasper Holten

Top Cast

Stig Fogh Andersen

Siegmund

Gitta-Maria Sjöberg

Sieglinde

James Johnson

Wotan

Iréne Theorin
Iréne Theorin

Brünnhilde

Stephen Milling
Stephen Milling

Hunding

Randi Stene

Fricka

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