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Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Die Walkure

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Die Walkure: Part 2: Act 3

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Wagner's Ring

Part 2 Part 2: Act 3

Act 3

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Ring, Die Walkure, Act 3

Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walkure, with the Royal Opera House Orchestra under Antonio Pappano.

Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walkure, with the Royal Opera House Orchestra under Antonio Pappano. Simon O'Neill (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde) and Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde).

Wagner's Die Walküre
Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Presented by Donald Macleod

In the second of the Ring dramas, live from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, we move from the realm of the gods to the human sphere, where love enters the story in the blossoming relationship between the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. But Fricka, as guardian of marriage, insists that her husband, Wotan, strikes down Siegmund for his transgression. And we meet one of the main characters in the story, the Valkyrie, Brunnhilde who fails to carry out Wotan's order to destroy Siegmund. As a result she is stripped of her divinity and left on a fire-encircled rock.

Donald Macleod is joined by Wagner expert Barbara Eichner. 

Siegmund.....Simon O'Neill (Tenor)
Sieglinde.....Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano)
Hunding.....John Tomlinson (Bass)
Wotan.....Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone)
Brünnhilde.....Susan Bullock (Soprano)
Fricka.....Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-Soprano)
Gerhilde.....Alwyn Mellor (Soprano)
Ortlinde.....Katherine Broderick (Soprano)
Waltraute.....Karen Cargill (Mezzo-Soprano)
Schwertleite.....Anna Burford (Mezzo-Soprano)
Helmwige.....Elisabeth Meister (Soprano)
Siegrune.....Sarah Castle (Mezzo-Soprano)
Grimgerde.....Clare Shearer (Mezzo-Soprano)
Rossweisse.....Madeleine Shaw (Mezzo-Soprano)
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductor, Antonio Pappano

Act 3.

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring

Die Walkure

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Relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

Donald Macleod presents a performance of the second of Wagner's Ring dramas, Die Walkure

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Donald Macleod presents a performance of the second of Wagner's Ring dramas, Die Walkure. With contributions from Wagner expert Barbara Eichner

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