Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. In this Live in HD transmission of Die Walküre, the second and most popular installment in the composer’s sweeping tetralogy, Goerke is joined by bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Brünnhilde godly father, Wotan, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as his unbending wife, Fricka. As the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Stuart Skelton—alongside bass Günther Groissböck as Sieglinde’s bloodthirsty husband, Hunding—round out the principal cast. And on the podium, Maestro Philippe Jordan conducts Robert Lepage’s innovative staging, which uses state-of-the-art stage technology to tell Wagner’s mythic tale.
Unfortunately the movie The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre is not yet available on HBO Max.
Costume & Make-Up | François St-Aubin | Costume Designer |
Directing | Robert Lepage | Director |
Directing | Gina Lapinski | Stage Director |
Art | Robert Lepage | Production Design |
Directing | J. Knighten Smit | Stage Director |
Art | Carl Fillion | Set Designer |
Lighting | Étienne Boucher | Lighting Design |
Sound | David Frost | Music Producer |
Directing | Gary Halvorson | Director |
Production | Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
Production | Mia Bongiovanni | Supervising Producer |
Production | Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
Production | Elena Park | Supervising Producer |
Production | Louisa Briccetti | Producer |