Wagner: Die Walküre in Royal Festival Hall

As a deadly storm rages through the forest, two desperate people find shelter.
But higher powers watch and judge, and Siegmund and Sieglinde’s forbidden love will have consequences on a cosmic scale.

A brother finds a sister, a father betrays his son and a goddess discovers her own humanity: the second part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle contains some of the most overwhelmingly emotional music in all opera.
This concert performance is an ideal entry-point into Wagner’s epic world.
Leading Wagnerian Stuart Skelton heads a stellar cast.

Programme

Wagner Die Walküre – opera in 3 acts
(performed in German with English surtitles)

Performers

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Stuart Skelton tenor, Siegmund
Evgeny Nikitin bass, Wotan *
Ruxandra Donose mezzo-soprano, Sieglinde *
Stephen Milling bass, Hunding
Claudia Mahnke mezzo-soprano, Fricka
Svetlana Sozdateleva soprano, Brünnhilde
Ursula Hesse von den Steinen mezzo-soprano, Waltraute
Sinéad Campbell-Wallace soprano, Helmwige
Alwyn Mellor soprano, Gerhilde
Gabriela Istoc soprano, Ortlinde
Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano, Rossweisse
Angela Simkin mezzo-soprano, Siegrune
Rachael Lloyd mezzo-soprano, Grimgerde
Susan Platts contralto, Schwertleite

* Please note a change of artist from previously advertised

Performance lasts 5 hours 15 minutes, including one 30 minute interval and one 60 minute interval.