Wagner - Die Walküre: "The Ride of the Valkyries" (Boulez)

start of Act III, as the Valkyries gather the soldiers' bodies, and clip ends a bit after Brünnhilde's entrance.Wagner used the Valkyries of the Norse Sagas, rather than the depiction of them in the Nibelungenlied. Women of death and warfare, as Chéreau understood well.from Darraðarljóð (Njál's saga Chap. 156.):Vindum, vindumvef darraðar,þars er vé vaðavígra manna!Látum eigilíf hans farask;eigu valkyrjurvals of kosti.Wind we, wind swiftlyOur warwinning woof.sword-bearing roversTo banners rush on,Mind, maidens, we spare notOne life in the fray!We corse-choosing sistersDer Ring des Nibelungen, a famous production from Bayreuth 1976, recorded 1980.Carmen Reppel as GerhildeGabriele Schnaut as WaltrauteGwendolyn Killebrew as SchwertleiteKaren Middleton as OrtlindeGwyneth Jones as BrünnhildeKatie Clarke as HelmwigeIlse Gramatzki as GrimgerdeJeannine Altmeyer as SieglindeElisabeth Glauser as RossweisseMarga Schiml as SiegruneConducted by Pierre Boulez Directed by Patrice Chéreau, who had very little experience with opera, and his only exposure to Wagner on stage was a performance of Die Walküre at the Paris Opéra that he slept thru.Scenic design by Richard Peduzzi, who had never designed a Wagner operaCostumes by Jacques Schmidt, who had never dressed a Wagner operaDer Walküren-Ritt La Chevauchée des Walkyries

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Uploaded: July 20, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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