The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
2019Soprano 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.
Acted in
Christine Goerke
as Brünnhilde
Eva-Maria Westbroek
as Sieglinde
Jamie Barton
as Fricka
Stuart Skelton
as Siegmund
Greer Grimsley
as Wotan
Günther Groissböck
as Hunding
Deborah Voigt
as Self - Host
Kelly Cae Hogan
as Gerhilde
Jessica Faselt
as Helmwige
Renée Tatum
as Waltraute
Daryl Freedman
as Schwertleite
Wendy Bryn Harmer
as Ortlinde
Eve Gigliotti
as Siegrune
Maya Lahyani
as Grimgerde
Mary Phillips
as Rossweisse
MET Orchestra
as Themselves - Orchestra