Wagner: Die Walküre

Overview

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.

Cast

Peter Seiffert

Siegmund

Georg Zeppenfeld

Hunding

Vitalij Kowaljow

Wotan

Anja Harteros

Sieglinde

Anja Kampe

Brünnhilde

Christa Mayer

Fricka

Johanna Winkel

Gerhilde