Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. In this Live in HD transmission of Die Walküre, the second and most popular installment in the composer’s sweeping tetralogy, Goerke is joined by bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Brünnhilde godly father, Wotan, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as his unbending wife, Fricka. As the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Stuart Skelton—alongside bass Günther Groissböck as Sieglinde’s bloodthirsty husband, Hunding—round out the principal cast. And on the podium, Maestro Philippe Jordan conducts Robert Lepage’s innovative staging, which uses state-of-the-art stage technology to tell Wagner’s mythic tale.
Directed by Gary Halvorson, Robert Lepage
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Cast
Christine Goerke
Brünnhilde
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Sieglinde
Jamie Barton
Fricka
Stuart Skelton
Siegmund
Greer Grimsley
Wotan
Günther Groissböck
Hunding
Kelly Cae Hogan
Gerhilde
Jessica Faselt
Helmwige
Renée Tatum
Waltraute
Daryl Freedman
Schwertleite
Wendy Bryn Harmer
Ortlinde
Eve Gigliotti
Siegrune
Maya Lahyani
Grimgerde
Mary Phillips
Rossweisse
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