Film

The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre

2019 · 3h 53m · Drama

IMDb

8.9

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.

Christine Goerke

Brünnhilde

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Sieglinde

Jamie Barton

Fricka

Stuart Skelton

Siegmund

Greer Grimsley

Wotan

Günther Groissböck

Hunding

Deborah Voigt

Self - Host

Kelly Cae Hogan

Gerhilde

Jessica Faselt

Helmwige

Renée Tatum

Waltraute

Daryl Freedman

Schwertleite

Wendy Bryn Harmer

Ortlinde

Eve Gigliotti

Siegrune

Maya Lahyani

Grimgerde

Mary Phillips

Rossweisse

MET Orchestra

Themselves - Orchestra

• Robert LepageDirector
• Gary HalvorsonDirector
• Richard WagnerOriginal Music Composer · Writer
• Victoria WarivonchikProducer
• Louisa BriccettiProducer
• Peter GelbExecutive Producer

Release date

March 30, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

3h 53m

Genres

Drama