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Theater Dortmund

Orchestra

Dortmund Philharmonic

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Gabriel Feltz

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Peter Konwitschny

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Florian Franzen

Assistant Stage Director

Assistant Stage Director (+2)

Clara Schamp

Soprano (+4)

Stéphanie Müther

Brünnhilde

Tenor

Viktor Antipenko

Siegmund

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Kai Rüütel

Fricka

Bass (+2)

Denis Velev

Hunding

Soprano (+2)

Tanja Kuhn

Gerhilde

Natascha Valentin

Waltraute

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Maria Hiefinger

Schwertleite

Soprano

Sooyeon Lee

Helmwige

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Ruth Katharina Peeck

Siegrune

Grimgerde

Edvina Valjevcic

Rossweisse

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+3)

Bettina Bartz

Soprano (+3)

Barbara Senator

Sieglinde

Opernhaus Dortmund

Vera Fischer

Ortlinde

Bass-baritone (+7)

Tomasz Konieczny

Wotan

Extras

Extras Theater Dortmund

Stage Manager

Stage Manager (+1)

Ulas Nagler

Stage director (+2)

Alexander Becker

Assistant Costume Designer

Costume designer (+2)

Nina Albrecht-Paffendorf

Répétiteur

Pianist (+6)

Karsten Scholz

Conductor (+2)

Thomas Hannig

Andrea Alessandrini

It's about a pair of siblings who have lost each other and find each other again. It is about incestuous love, adultery and infidelities. It's about power and intrigue. But it is also about love, trust and the search for happiness. And it's about a ring that means the future of the world. Richard Wagner's Die Walküre begins like a simple love triangle in which two people fall in love with each other and a third suffers as a result. But in the course of the opera, the deeper dimension of this entanglement becomes apparent and the perspective expands beyond the purely human. It is nothing less than a part of the world-spanning epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, which Richard Wagner created with Die Walküre.

The First Day of the Stage Festival is one of Wagner's most popular operas and from the very beginning fascinated opera-goers who were not open to all of the composer's achievements. The reason for this is the combination of Wagner's musical innovations such as large declamatory passages with proven stylistic elements from the older number operas. This is how the "Ride of the Valkyries", for example, has become one of the most internationally famous pieces of music ever.

Duration of the performance Act 1: approx. 1:10 hrs – Intermission I: approx. 40 mins – Act 2: approx. 1:35 hrs – Intermission II: approx. 50 mins – Act 3: approx. 1:15 hrs (total duration approx. 5:30 hrs)

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