The Valkyrie by Wagner, From (2024/2024), Directed by Romeo Castellucci,, Conductor Alain Altinoglu, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

If Das Rheingold ends with the vision of the supremacy of the gods climbing a rainbow, the second part of the Ring of the Nibelungs begins with that of a solitary mortal braving a violent storm. It is about a fugitive warrior named Siegmund. When he finally finds shelter and rest in a remote cabin, it is to meet Sieglinde, a young woman as beautiful as she is unhappy. A devouring passion is born between the two, as evidence, at the same time as a buried past resurfaces which will seal their destiny. Their forbidden love provokes the anger of the goddess of marriage, Fricka, who demands that her husband, Wotan, enforce by force the ancestral and rigid laws of the gods... In Die Walküre, the “first day” of Richard Wagner's tetralogy, director Romeo Castellucci reveals the full depth of these emblematic characters and the love that drives them, despite the curse of the ring. And with the usual ardor of Alain Altinoglu at the head of the Orchester symphonique de la Monnaie, this ride of the Valkyries promises to be the most gripping you've ever heard.