Wagner - Die Walküre (Nilsson, Vickers, Ward, London - LSO, Leinsdorf)

Описание: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B

Die Walküre: Act 1 [0:09]
Die Walkure: Act 2 [1:00:42]
Die Walküre: Act 3 [2:28:20]

Cast:
Birgit Nilsson - Brünnhilde (Daughter of Wotan via Erda)
John Vickers - Siegmund (Völsung son of Wotan, twin brother of Sieglinde)
David Ward - Hunding (Husband of Sieglinde)
George London - Wotan (God of battle, and of contracts, ruler of the gods)
Gré Brouwenstijn - Sieglinde (Völsung daughter of Wotan, twin sister of Siegmund)
Rita Gorr - Fricka (Goddess of marriage, wife to Wotan)

London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

Background and Synopsis:

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed as a single opera at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870 and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.

The story of Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is based on the Norse mythology told in the Völsunga saga and the Poetic Edda. In this version, the Volsung twins Sieglinde and Siegmund, separated in childhood, meet and fall in love. This union angers the gods, who demand that Siegmund must die. Sieglinde and the couple's unborn child are saved by the defiant actions of Wotan's daughter, the title character, Valkyrie Brünnhilde, who, as a result, faces the gods' retribution.

(Text courtesy: Wikipedia)

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