“I am extremely eager to know how the last act will affect you; for besides you I have no one to whom it would be worthwhile to communicate this. It has turned out well – probably the best I have so far written. I’ve captured a terrific storm of elements and of hearts, which gradually calms to Brünnhilde’s magic sleep,” wrote Wagner of the score to Die Walküre, in a letter to Ferenc Liszt.

And it is true: after the introductory Das Rheingold, this constitutes the start of the more tightly drawn dramatic trilogy. Once again, the laws of the gods clash: can paternal love save a lad who has violated the sanctity of marriage? And what punishments await the woman who protects the as-yet-unborn and innocent hero?

Conductor:  Péter Halász
Director:Géza M. Tóth
Choreographer :  Marianna Venekei
Set Designer: Gergely Zöldy Z
Costume Designer: Ibolya Bárdosi
Cast István Kovácsházi (Siegmund), Eszter Sümegi (Sieglinde), Andreas Hörl (Hunding), Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan),
Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Judit Németh (Fricka)

Premiere 6 March 2016, 5 p.m.

Venue: Opera House

Further dates 10, 13, 17, 20 March 2016

Source: opera.hu