1st August
Concert will begin at 18:04 hours GMT
Wagner's 'Die Walküre' with Theorin, Davidsen, Vogt, Konieczny and Mayer from Bayreuth
Bayreuth Festival. Wagner's 'Die Walküre' is a music drama in three acts with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four works that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. The story of Die Walküre is based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one in a group of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live. Performers:
Klaus Florian Vogt: Siegmund.
Georg Zeppenfeld: Hunding.
Tomasz Konieczny: Wotan.
Lise Davidsen: Sieglinde.
Iréne Theorin: Brünnhilde.
Christa Mayer: Fricka.
Kelly God: Gerhilde.
Brit-Tone Müllertz: Ortlinde.
Stephanie Houtzeel: Siegrune.
Stéphanie Müther: Waltraute.
Christa Mayer: Schwertleite.
Daniela Köhler: Helmwige.
Stéphanie Müther: Siegrune.
Marie Henriette Reinhold: Grimgerde.
Simone Schröder: Rossweisse.
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Cornelius Meister.
Delayed broadcast.
Viersen
In act 3 Michael Kupfer-Radecky took over Tomasz Konieczny after a stage accident in act 2.
Charltotte, NC, 28210 USA
Would love to listen to three of my favorite singers, Klaus Florian Vogt, Irene Theorin, and Lise Davidson, of course, also, the rest of the cast.I do have problems to connect.
Charltotte, NC, 28210 USA
Would love to listen to three of my favorite singers, Klaus Florian Vogt, Irene Theorin, and Lise Davidson, of course, also, the rest of the cast.I do have problems to connect.
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