DIE WALKÜRE Wagner – Longborough Festival Opera

Siegmund and Sieglinde find themselves drawn together during a storm. Unbeknown to them their father Wotan, chief of the gods, hopes through Siegmund to retrieve a ring of ultimate power.

Die Walküre stands at the pinnacle of Romantic musical drama. Barely has the curtain opened when Wagner unleashes orchestral writing that sweeps everything away in its path. Storm, incest, divine wrath, irrepressible passion: everything is there to announce the tortuous destiny of the heroes. Through a composition in which every instrument contributes to the tragedy, Wagner begins the story proper, illuminating words and scenes with his famous leitmotifs that run beneath the singers, pass into their voices, transform and resurface as the plot develops. It is not surprising that Die Walküre (second part of the Ring of the Nibelung) is widely regarded as the most popular and the most moving. Likened to a Bayreuth in the English countryside, Longborough Festival stages a new production following the socially-distanced concert performance of Die Walküre in 2021. This new 2024 production is seen for the first time as part of Longborough’s 2024 Ring cycle. It is directed by Amy Lane, Artistic Director of Copenhagen Opera Festival, and conducted by Anthony Negus, Longborough Music Director and eminent Wagnerian.

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 9 August 2024 at 19:00 CET to 9 February 2025 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/di...

CAST

Siegmund
Mark Le Brocq

Sieglinde
Emma Bell

Wotan
Paul Carey Jones

Fricka
Madeleine Shaw

Brünnhilde
Lee Bisset

Hunding
Julian Close

Gerhilde
Eleanor Dennis

Ortlinde
Cara McHardy

Waltraute
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones

Schwertleite
Verena Gunz

Helmwige
Katie Lowe

Siegrune
Carolyn Dobbin

Grimgerde
Katie Stevenson

Rossweisse
Rozanna Madylus

Orchestra
Longborough Festival Orchestra

Music
Richard Wagner

Text
Richard Wagner

Conductor
Anthony Negus

Director
Amy Lane

Lights
Charlie Morgan Jones

Sets
Rhiannon Newman Brown

Costumes
Emma Ryott

Video
Tim Baxter

Assistant Conductor
Harry Sever

Assistant Director
Leo Doulton

Choreographer
Lorena Randi

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