Die Walkure

Composer: Wagner, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Wagner, Richard

Conductor: Thielemann, Christian

Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Brunnhilde: Watson, Linda

Fricka: Fujimura, Mihoko

Gerhilde: Muhleck, Sonja

Grimgerde: Kuttenbaum, Annette

Helmwige: Gordon-Stewart, Miriam

Hunding: Youn, Kwangchul

Ortlinde: Gabler, Anna

Rossweisse: Petersamer, Alexandra

Schwertleite: Schroder, Simone

Sieglinde: Haller, Edith

Siegmund: Botha, Johan

Waltraute: Dike, Martina

Wotan: Dohmen, Albert

Set Designer: Schlossmann, Frank Philipp

Costume Designer: Skodzig, Bernd Ernst

Lighting Designer: Niepel, Ulrich

Stage Director: Dorst, Tankred

Television Director: Beyer, Michael

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Date of Production: 21-08-2010

Festival: Bayreuth Festival

Venue: Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Playing Time: 04:19:03

Catalogue Number: OA1045D

UPC: 809478010456

Libretto

Die Walkure

Synopsis

Die Walkure

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Christian Thielemann, "by common consent the leading Wagner conductor of our time" (Die Presse), returns to Bayreuth for this radiant account of Die Walküre filmed at the 2010 Festival. Appearing on video for the first time, it provides the only audio-visual document of Tankred Dorst's Ring production, and follows the hugely successful release of the whole cycle on CD. Two new singers join the cast: Johan Botha as Siegmund, who was showered with praise by the press ("ideal vocal casting" in the words of the critic on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and Edith Haller, with her "beautiful, strong soprano voice" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) as his sister and lover Sieglinde.