Opera “Die Walküre“ by Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Plácido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Riccardo Muti.

Teatro alla Scala. Cast: PLÁCIDO DOMINGO (Siegmund) MATTHIAS HOELLE (Hunding) MONTE PEDERSON (Wotan) WALTRAUD MEIER (Sieglinde) GABRIELE SCHNAUT (Brünnhilde) MARJANA LIPOUSEK (Fricka) SUSAN ANTHONY (Gerhilde) RUTH FLOEREN (Ortlinde) MARGARETA HINTERMEIER (Waltraute) ANNA GONDA (Schwertleite) GABRIELE MARIA RONGE (Helmwige) KATIA LYTTING (Slegrune) PENELOPE WALKER (Grimgerde) LIOBA BRAUN (Rossweise) Orchestra del Teattro Alla Scala. Concertatore e direttore d’orchestra: RICCARDO MUTI. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876. As the Ring cycle was conceived by Wagner in reverse order of performance