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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 15

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 15: Part 1: Prom 15 (part 1): Wagner - Die Walkure

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Part 1 Part 1: Prom 15 (part 1): Wagner - Die Walkure

2013

Prom 15 (part 1): Wagner - Die Walkure

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Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Tom Service presents the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim performing Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure.

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Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim live at the BBC Proms with the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service


Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 (concert performance, sung in German)

6.00pm Interval

6.30pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 2

8.05pm Interval

8.35pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 3

Wotan ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Fricka ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Siegmund ..... Simon O'Neill (tenor)
Sieglinde ..... Anja Kampe (soprano)
Hunding ..... Eric Halfvarson (bass)
Brünnhilde ..... Nina Stemme (soprano)
Gerhilde ..... Sonja Mühleck (soprano)
Ortlinde ..... Carola Höhn (soprano)
Waltraute ..... Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo-soprano)
Schwertleite ..... Anaïk Morel (contralto)
Helmwige ..... Susan Foster (soprano)
Siegrune ..... Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde ..... Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse ..... Simone Schröder (mezzo-soprano)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

Daniel Barenboim's Ring cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin continues with part two, Die Walküre, and more mythical and psychological forces at large. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter who we meet for the first time, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Die Walküre is considered perhaps the most accessible of the Ring cycle operas, and ends with the powerful Magic Fire Music.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 15

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Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim perform Wagner's Die Walküre.

Tom Service presents from the Royal Albert Hall as Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim perform the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre.

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