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Wagner’s Ring cycle is one of the greatest
works of all opera. Keith Warner’s production
is conducted by Antonio Pappano, Music
Director of The Royal Opera, and this
final revival is cast with an outstanding
international array of Wagnerian specialist
singers. The full cycle's four operas journey
from the beginning of a world to its
destruction, with gods, heroes and monsters.
This epic myth portrays every type of human
emotion in music and ideas of extraordinary
power. The Ring is always a special event
in the operatic calendar: once experienced,
never forgotten.
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second
opera in the cycle, and features several of
the Ring’s musical highlights – the sparkling
Magic Fire Music and the electrifying Ride
of the Valkyries. But among the musical
fireworks and Norse mythology, at the
centre of this opera are the unforgettable
characters and the complex entanglements
between them, including twins Siegmund
and Sieglinde, and Wotan and his Valkyrie
daughter, Brünnhilde.

APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME:
4 HOURS 50 MINUTES, INCLUDING
TWO INTERVALS | SUNG IN GERMAN
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES