

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.

Peter Seiffert
Siegmund
Lead
Georg Zeppenfeld
Hunding

Vitalij Kowaljow
Wotan

Anja Harteros
Sieglinde

Anja Kampe
Brünnhilde

Christa Mayer
Fricka

Johanna Winkel
Gerhilde
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