Organization

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Singer

Tenor

Stuart Skelton

Siegmund

Bass

Eric Halfvarson

Hunding

Baritone

James Rutherford

Wotan

Soprano

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Sieglinde

Iréne Theorin

Brünnhilde

Mezzo-soprano

Elisabeth Kulman

Fricka

Katherine Broderick

Helmwige

Alwyn Mellor

Gerhilde

Anna Gabler

Ortlinde

Jennifer Johnston

Waltraute

Contralto

Claudia Huckle

Schwertleite

Eva Vogel

Siegrune

Simone Schröder

Rossweisse

Anna Lapkovskaja

Grimgerde

Orchestra

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Die Walküre -  (The Valkyrie)

Munich

Germany

Herkulessaal

Die Walküre Wagner,Richard

Public

The Valkyrie

Approved

Sir Simon Rattle will resume his Munich Ring with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra! His stunning Rheingold of 2015, released on CD on the orchestra’s own BR-Klassik label, will now be followed by the ‘first day’ of Richard Wagner’s Ring tetralogy, Die Walküre. Rattle’s concert performance will then end with Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, both in the new Munich Concert Hall. Die Walküre is the most popular part of the tetralogy, thanks to the heart-rending encounters and dialogues between the young lovers and the all-too human gods – and of course to such musical highlights as Siegmund’s ‘Winterstürme’ monologue, the ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ and Wotan’s ‘Farewell and Magic Fire Music’. James Rutherford will sing the patriarchal Wotan and Elisabeth Kulman his quarrelsome wife Fricka, while Eric Halvarson takes the role of the dastardly Hunding. Additions are Iréne Theorin as Wotan’s favourite daughter Brünnhilde and Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek as the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic already mounted a complete Ring at the Salzburg Easter Festival early in the new millennium, demonstrating his authority as a Wagner conductor. Now Munich audiences can look forward to his new Walküre!

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble