(Wagner)
Act III
The summit of a rocky mountain (Valkyrie Rock)
Relayed from THE ROYAL OPERA House, COVENT
GARDEN
Cast
Conductor, ADRIAN BOULT
THE third .act begins with the stirring Ride of the Valkyries, as the Warrior Maidens gather on their grim rock. Each of them has a slain hero across her saddle, whom she in bearing to Valhalla, but when Brunnhilde, the last to come, reaches the rock, it. is Sieglinde whom she is carrying. She hides Sieglinde in the forest, and then Wotan hastens to the crag in angry pursuit of his disobedient daughter. The sisters plead with him to spare her, but he bids them go, and the last part of the act is a splendid duet between the god and Brünnhilde. Gradually she recalls his former pride in her, and prevails on him to let her punishment bo less severe than he had first designed. She is to be laid to sleep on the summit of the rock with a great fire about her, so that none may come to her save a hero who knows no fear. The opera comes to an end with Wotan's splendid farewell as she is laid to sleep.