Wagner's Valkyrie: Deutsche Oper Berlin
About the Event
Immerse yourself in the stunning architecture of Berlin's breathtaking Deutsche Oper Berlin for the ultimate concert set to awake your understanding of opera.
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.
Cast / Production
Siegmund — Michael König
Hunding — Tobias Kehrer
Wotan — Derek Welton
Sieglinde - Elisabeth Teige
Fricka — Annika Schlicht
Brünnhilde - Ricarda Merbeth
Helmwige — Flurina Stucki
Gerhilde — Felicia Moore
Ortlinde — Maria Motolygina
Waltraute — Irene Roberts
Siegrune — Arianna Manganello
Rossweiße — Karis Tucker
Grimgerde — Nicole Piccolomini
Schwertleite — Lauren Decker
