The Royal Opera: Wagner’s Die Walkure

Wagner’s Ring cycle is one of the greatest works of all opera. The full cycle's four operas journey from the beginning of a world to its destruction, with gods, heroes and monsters. This epic myth portrays every type of human emotion in music and ideas of extraordinary power. The Ring is always a special event in the operatic calendar: once experienced, never forgotten. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the cycle, and features several of the Ring’s musical highlights – the sparkling Magic Fire Music and the electrifying Ride of the Valkyries. But among the musical fireworks and Norse mythology, at the centre of this opera are the unforgettable characters and the complex entanglements between them, including twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Wotan and his Valkyrie daughter, Brünnhilde. Conductor Antonio Pappano and director Barrie Kosky reunite to continue the mythical adventure that began with Das Rheingold in 2023. On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde. Sung in German with subtitles Intervals TBCPT6H5MTBC2025-05-18

Christopher Maltman

Elisabet Strid

Lise Davidsen

Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Soloman Howard

Marina Prudenskaya

Maida Hundeling

Katie Lowe

Lee Bisset

Claire Barnett-Jones

Catherine Carby

Alison Kettlewell

Monika-Evelin Liiv

Rhonda Brown

Barrie Kosky

CONDUCTOR Antonio Pappano MUSIC Richard Wagner LIBRETTO Richard Wagner SET DESIGNER Rufus Didwiszus COSTUME DESIGNER Victoria Behr LIGHTING DESIGNER Alessandro Carletti

The Royal Opera: Wagner’s Die Walkure"The Royal Opera: Wagner’s Die Walkure"

Showtimes

May 18, 2:00 pm