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After the reign of the gods has reached its radiant zenith at the end of the RHEINGOLD with the entry into Valhalla Castle, the signs in the WALKÜRE are stormy: the people are frozen in greed for power, mistrust and possessiveness, the gods confine themselves only to monitoring compliance with the old laws instead of questioning their meaning.



Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles
Director: Stefan Herheim

With
Matthew Newlin, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Elisabeth Teige, Annika Schlicht, Trine Møller a. o.


With the hegemony of the gods at its zenith at the close of THE RHINEGOLD and the gods ensconced in the castle of Valhalla, trouble is brewing in THE VALKYRIE. The mortals are power-crazed, mistrust and materialism rule and all that the gods can think about is enforcing the old codes rather than questioning their raison d’être.


Siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde are condemned to death because there is no place for their special brand of love in society. Brünnhilde, a Valkyrie, is charmed by them and dares to defy her father Wotan’s sentence by taking the pair under her wing.


In THE VALKYRIE Wagner makes it plain whose side he is on: in the big love scene between Siegmund and Sieglinde, in which the elemental force of love outpunches all social mores, and in the evolution of Brünnhilde’s character, whose conduct is at first motivated by intuitive sympathy but morphs into deliberate action as a protest against inhumanity and injustice.

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Additional information
In German with German and English surtitles


First performed on 26th June, 1870 in Munich
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 27th September, 2020



Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance
Participating artists
Sir Donald Runnicles (Musikalische Leitung)
Stefan Herheim (Inszenierung, Bühne)
Silke Bauer (Bühne)
Uta Heiseke (Kostüme)
Ulrich Niepel (Licht)
William Duke (Video)
Dan Trenchard (Video)
Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach (Dramaturgie)
Jörg Königsdorf (Dramaturgie)
Matthew Newlin (Siegmund)
Tobias Kehrer (Hunding)
Thomas Johannes Mayer (Wotan)
Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde)
Annika Schlicht (Fricka)
Trine Møller (Brünnhilde)
Flurina Stucki (Helmwige)
Felicia Moore (Gerhilde)
Maria Motolygina (Ortlinde)
Aleksandra Meteleva (Waltraute)
Arianna Manganello (Siegrune)
Karis Tucker (Roßweiße)
Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Grimgerde)
Lauren Decker (Schwertleite)
Eric Naumann (Hundingling)
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
Dates
May 2026
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