The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre

Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. In this Live in HD transmission of Die Walküre, the second and most popular installment in the composer’s sweeping tetralogy, Goerke is joined by bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Brünnhilde godly father, Wotan, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as his unbending wife, Fricka. As the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Stuart Skelton—alongside bass Günther Groissböck as Sieglinde’s bloodthirsty husband, Hunding—round out the principal cast. And on the podium, Maestro Philippe Jordan conducts Robert Lepage’s innovative staging, which uses state-of-the-art stage technology to tell Wagner’s mythic tale.

Cast

Christine Goerke Brünnhilde

Eva-Maria Westbroek Sieglinde

Jamie Barton Fricka

Stuart Skelton Siegmund

Greer Grimsley Wotan

Günther Groissböck Hunding

Deborah Voigt Self - Host

Kelly Cae Hogan Gerhilde

Jessica Faselt Helmwige

Renée Tatum Waltraute

Daryl Freedman Schwertleite

Wendy Bryn Harmer Ortlinde

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