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Die Walküre. Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years.
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Wagner: Die Walküre by James Levine. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Technical Specifications. 589 kbit/s VBR, 44.1 kHz, 959 MByte (flac) Remarks. This recording is part of a complete Ring cycle. Die Walküre.
In this incandescent performance conducted by James Levine, James Morris’s legendary Wotan is coupled with Hildegard Behrens’s searing Brünnhilde, and Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes are the passionate Siegmund and Sieglinde.
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When the opera premiered on April 22, soprano Deborah Voigt, Brünnhilde, fell as she clambered up the Machine’s treacherous slope. And during the Act III Walkürenritt at the April 28 performance as mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, Siegrune, slid down a plank-cum-horse’s neck she fell onto the main stage floor, three feet below where she was supposed to...
Too often this production of Walküre lumbers from scene to scene, the Machine starts twisting and turning and the next part of the opera unfolds. The work’s dramatic arc is diffused so instead of being caught up in the opera’s taut familial conflicts, we witness a series of disparate scenes ruled by the Machine. Hunding’s spacious hut is too wide t...
Singers with the requisite vocal heft to surmount the Ring’s orchestration are increasingly rare. At least mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, Fricka, and bass Hans-Peter König, Hunding, are imposing Wagnerians. Blythe portrays a vulnerable, disappointed Fricka, whose wrath is understandable. However, Fricka’s chair, which includes rams’ horns as arm r...
In 1984, I witnessed James Levine’s conducting of his very first Ring performances when he led Die Walküre with the Met on tour in Washington, DC. Those two stirring performances were a harbinger of Levine’s work in the Met’s then-planned new Ring cycle. Lately, Levine’s Wagner conducting has become erratic, so credit is due to the Met’s orchestra ...
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23 apr 2011 · Two scenes in the Metropolitan Opera’s highly anticipated new production of Wagner’s “Walküre,” which opened on Friday night, showcased what is both captivating and exasperating about Robert...
