Music
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.
Production
Decca
Cast & Characters
Stig Fogh Andersen
Siegmund
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg
Sieglinde
James Johnson
Wotan
Iréne Theorin
Brünnhilde
Stephen Milling
Hunding
Randi Stene
Fricka
Directors & Crew
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Richard Wagner
Writer
K
Kasper Holten
Director
