Why The Royal Opera love performing Die Walküre

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Conductor Antonio Pappano, director Keith Warner, Emily Magee (Sieglinde), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), John Lundgren (Wotan), Sarah Connolly (Fricka) and Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) discuss their experiences of rehearsing and performing Die Walküre.
Tackling Wagner’s Ring Cycle can seem a daunting task: complicated storylines, huge casts and outrageous running times are often enough to put off all but the most committed Wagnerian.
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Die Walküre is the second work of Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, following Das Rheingold. It has become the most performed opera of the cycle, loved and admired for its nuanced and intelligent exploration of complex family entanglements, expressed through music of astonishing power - perhaps nowhere more so than in the glorious music for the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde.
Wotan’s voyage of self-discovery and ultimate resignation are at the heart of Keith Warner’s production, created for The Royal Opera in 2005. Wotan’s great Act II monologue is set in the abandoned former home of the gods, seen in Das Rheingold, whose evident disorder and damage present a striking representation of Wotan’s own inner decline and the gods’ incipient twilight. Recurring objects and visual motifs reflect the use of musical themes within Wagner’s score, which shows the composer at his most radical and most lyrical.

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Had the pleasure of watching this performance of Die Walkure 'live' last Sunday at the local cinema via satellite link, for it was streamed direct from the ROH, to over 23 countries I believe.
Absolutely brilliant! As Henry has said ( below) "Wagner would be proud".

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Thanks for those Videos!

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Bit of a marathon. I cannot wait to be able to make the time to fully immerse myself into this opera straight through.

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Only wish I could have made it to see this production in person, health being a nuisance at present, but determined to bucket list in future

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First comment.. Haai everyone

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All that talent, yet the produced music drama themselves were underwhelming, sometimes just silly, almost as bad as Bayreuth.