Opera "Die Walküre" by Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Plácido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Riccardo Muti.

Описание: Teatro alla Scala.
Cast:
PLÁCIDO DOMINGO (Siegmund)
MATTHIAS HOELLE (Hunding)
MONTE PEDERSON (Wotan)
WALTRAUD MEIER (Sieglinde)
GABRIELE SCHNAUT (Brünnhilde)
MARJANA LIPOUSEK (Fricka)
SUSAN ANTHONY (Gerhilde)
RUTH FLOEREN (Ortlinde)
MARGARETA HINTERMEIER (Waltraute)
ANNA GONDA (Schwertleite)
GABRIELE MARIA RONGE (Helmwige)
KATIA LYTTING (Slegrune)
PENELOPE WALKER (Grimgerde)
LIOBA BRAUN (Rossweise)
Orchestra del Teattro Alla Scala.

Concertatore e direttore d'orchestra: RICCARDO MUTI.

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: 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.

As the Ring cycle was conceived by Wagner in reverse order of performance, Die Walküre was the third of the four texts to be written, although Wagner composed the music in performance sequence. The text was completed by July 1852, and the music by March 1856.

Prior history:

During the lengthy time that has passed since the gods entered Valhalla at the end of Das Rheingold, Fafner has used the Tarnhelm to assume the form of a dragon, and guards the gold and the ring in the depths of the forest. Wotan has visited Erda seeking wisdom, and by her has fathered a daughter, Brünnhilde; he has fathered eight other daughters, possibly also by Erda. These, with Brünnhilde, are the Valkyries, whose task is to recover heroes fallen in battle and bring them to Valhalla, where they will protect the fortress from Alberich's assault should the dwarf recover the ring. Wotan has also wandered the earth, and with a woman of the Völsung race has fathered the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, who have grown up separately and unaware of each other. From the Völsungs Wotan hopes for a hero who, unencumbered by the gods' treaties, will obtain the ring from Fafner.