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Teatro alla Scala

Stage director

Stage director (+5)

David McVicar

Set designer

Hannah Postlethwaite

Costume designer

Set designer (+1)

Emma Kingsbury

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

David Finn

Video

Video (+2)

Katy S Tucker

Choreographer

Choreographer (+1)

Gareth Mole

Tenor

Klaus Florian Vogt

Siegmund

Bass (+7)

Günther Groissböck

Hunding

Baritone (+4)

Michael Volle

Wotan

Soprano

Elza van den Heever

Sieglinde

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Okka von der Damerau

Fricka

Soprano (+3)

Camilla Nylund

Brünnhilde

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala

Stage combat master

Spoken (+1)

David Greeves

Contralto (+2)

Freya Apffelstaedt

Schwertleite

Eglė Wyss

Grimgerde

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Virginie Verrez

Siegrune

Mezzo-soprano (+6)

Eva Vogel

Rossweisse

Stephanie Houtzeel

Waltraute

Soprano (+1)

Olga Bezsmertna

Ortlinde

Kathleen O’Mara

Helmwige

Soprano (+2)

Caroline Wenborne

Gerhilde

Assistant Stage Director

Stage director (+1)

Greg Eldridge

Conductor

Alexander Soddy

Conductor (+3)

Simone Young

Led by preeminent conductor Christian Thielemann and stage director David McVicar, the Tetralogy returns to La Scala ten years after the memorable edition conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Guy Cassiers. The theatre thus pays tribute to the Wagnerian tradition established by Arturo Toscanini and continued over the years by such luminaries as Victor de Sabata, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Clemens Krauss, Herbert von Karajan, André Cluytens, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Riccardo Muti. Following up on the prologue performed in autumn 2024, the first day of the Ring des Nibelungen presents what is unquestionably the most popular of Wagner’s works among Italian audiences: Die Walküre. The sword drawn from the trunk of the ash tree, the incestuous love between Siegmund and Sieglinde, the ride of the Valkyries, the disobedience of Brünnhilde, and the enchanted circle of fire are quintessential archetypes of imagination that transcend music and theatre.

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