Die Walküre - Metropolitan Opera

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Christine GoerkeBrünnhilde

Eva-Maria WestbroekSieglinde

Jamie BartonFricka

Stuart SkeltonSiegmund

Greer Grimsley

Greer GrimsleyWotan

Günther GroissböckHunding

Kelly Cae Hogan

Kelly Cae HoganGerhilde

Jessica Faselt

Jessica FaseltHelmwige

Renée Tatum

Renée TatumWaltraute

Daryl Freedman

Daryl FreedmanSchwertleite

Wendy Bryn HarmerOrtlinde

Eve Gigliotti

Eve GigliottiSiegrune