Overview

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.

Top Cast

Christine Goerke

Brünnhilde

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Sieglinde

Jamie Barton

Fricka

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Stuart Skelton

Siegmund

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Greer Grimsley

Wotan

Günther Groissböck

Hunding

Deborah Voigt

Self - Host

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Kelly Cae Hogan

Gerhilde

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Jessica Faselt

Helmwige

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Renée Tatum

Waltraute

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Daryl Freedman

Schwertleite

Wendy Bryn Harmer

Ortlinde