Die Walküre

Die Walküre

Year: 1990

Runtime: 237 mins

Language: German

Directors: Otto Schenk, Brian Large

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Otto Schenk’s lavish staging, designed by Günther Schneider‑Siemssen, presents the second opera of Wagner’s Ring. Hildegard Behrens delivers a deeply empathetic Brünnhilde, while James Morris’s legendary Wotan confronts her defiance. Christa Ludwig shines as Fricka, Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes portray Sieglinde and Siegmund, Kurt Moll broods as Hunding, and James Levine conducts the Met orchestra with vivid colour and drama (recorded April 8 1989).

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