Die Walküre - Metropolitan Opera

Story

Synopsis

Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. In this Live in HD transmission of Die Walküre, the second and most popular installment in the composer’s sweeping tetralogy, Goerke is joined by bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Brünnhilde godly father, Wotan, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as his unbending wife, Fricka. As the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Stuart Skelton—alongside bass Günther Groissböck as Sieglinde’s bloodthirsty husband, Hunding—round out the principal cast. And on the podium, Maestro Philippe Jordan conducts Robert Lepage’s innovative staging, which uses state-of-the-art stage technology to tell Wagner’s mythic tale.

Directors

Gary Halvorson, Robert Lepage

Writers

Richard Wagner

Language

German

Release date

30 March 2019

Ensemble

Cast

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  Christine Goerke

  Brünnhilde

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  Eva-Maria Westbroek

  Sieglinde

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  Jamie Barton

  Fricka

• Stuart Skelton

  Siegmund

• Greer Grimsley

  Wotan

• 

  Günther Groissböck

  Hunding

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  Deborah Voigt

  Self - Host

• Kelly Cae Hogan

  Gerhilde

• Jessica Faselt

  Helmwige

• Renée Tatum

  Waltraute

• Daryl Freedman

  Schwertleite

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  Wendy Bryn Harmer

  Ortlinde