Organization

Singer

Tenor

Julian Hubbard

Siegmund

Soprano

Martina Welschenbach

Sieglinde

Baritone

Markus Marquardt

Wotan

Magdalena Anna Hofmann

Brünnhilde

Bass

Rafał Pawnuk

Hunding

Mezzo-soprano

Ksenia Vyaznikova

Fricka

Waltraute

Contralto

Veronika Dünser

Schwertleite

Larissa Gabshiy

Grimgerde

Stage director

Aron Stiehl

Conductor

Nicholas Milton

Costume designer

Okarina Peter

Timo Dentler

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Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Nancy Weißbach

Meredith Bloomfield

Gerhilde

Sarah Gilford

Ortlinde

Franziska Giesemann

Helmwige

Ivana Djokovic

Siegrune

Olena Pruscha

Rossweisse

Mitsugu Hoshino

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

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Kärntner Sinfonieorchester

German

Die Walküre -  (The Valkyrie)

Klagenfurt

Austria

Die Walküre Wagner,Richard

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Private

The Valkyrie

English

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DIE WALKÜRE Erster Tag des Bühnenfestspiels Der Ring des NibelungenText und Musik von Richard Wagnerin deutscher Sprache mit ÜbertitelnPremiere 16. September...

DIE WALKÜRE - Richard Wagner - Stadttheater Klagenfurt

People in a bitter struggle between archaic social structures and the unrestrained urge for freedom. A resigned god who denies himself, his work and his power - and yet tries to create a being who can save his existence. But can an independent, free human redeem the debt of the gods?

Wagner's great tetralogy tells the story of the world as a cycle of beginnings and ends, of life, love and failure of mankind, of creation, destruction and new creation. In the new Klagenfurter Ring , the powerful story begins with the Valkyrie, which among the works of the tetralogy has always been the public's favourite. It tells the story of Wotan's descendants, who are supposed to secure the power of the father of the gods. A pair of twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, seems born for it: the brother ends up at his enemy's stove, years later finds his sister there and wins her heart. Everything goes according to plan - and yet the sibling love breaks the law. The father must sacrifice the son. Brünnhilde, favorite daughter, defies her father for the first time and protects the incestuous couple in vain.

With the Valkyrie as the beginning, the Klagenfurt viewers* do not get into the action in the mythical past, which presents the Rheingold and thus already reveals the end of the parable at the beginning, but in the metaphorically understood present time of the people. This makes it particularly clear that the ring is only superficially set in a fantastic world of gods, heroes and magical beings. Above all, he reflects universal social structures and questions the relationship between man and nature - putting one of the most pressing issues of the present and near future up for discussion.

The Valkyrie by Wagner, Richard, From (2021/2021), Directed by Aron Stiehl,, Conductor Nicholas Milton, Mitsugu Hoshino, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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