Wagner: Die Walküre

Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring’s second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing. The cast in this 2018 staging... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: OA1308D
Label: Opus Arte

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Wagner: Die Walküre

Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), John Lundgren (Wotan), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Lise Davidsen (Ortlinde), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, Keith Warner

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Antonio Pappano conducts an outstanding cast including Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, Sarah Connolly, Emily Magee, Stuart Skelton and Ain Anger in Keith Warner’s ‘outstanding staging’ (Evening Standard) of Die Walküre.

Die Walküre is the second opera in Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It is the most performed work in the cycle, loved and admired for its nuanced and intelligent exploration of complex family entanglements through music of astonishing emotive power. This includes the glorious music for the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Wotan’s passionate farewell to his beloved daughter Brünnhilde.

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June 2020

Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring’s second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing. The cast in this 2018 staging would have been the envy of every world class opera company…But it’s Nina Stemme, as it should be, who defines this production. Generously voiced, she is essentially a lyric Brünnhilde, most moving when she tells Sieglinde that she is bearing Siegmund’s son.

June 2020

There is some terrific singing along the way: Stemme’s strength of emotion and pinpoint negotiation of vocal intervals, Skelton’s clarity and an increasingly heroic sound, Magee’s sheer focus tapping the same level as her Strauss Kaiserin...Pappano delivers a further degree of the Rudolf Kempe-like lyricism – nothing overstated but no lack of power or motion where needed – that he found from this cycle’s first Rheingold onwards.

Marh 2021

Warner’s Personenregie is detailed and convincing, the singing actors’ exposition of the text comprising a nearideal combination of lyricism with declamatory power…Magee’s Sieglinde is notable for vocal security, ample tone and emotional warmth…[Skelton's] interpretation adds up to an extraordinary achievement…A worthy successor to the great Wagnerian sopranos of the past, Nina Stemme’s Brünnhilde is as solid as a rock.

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