I - Prelude to act 1 (The opening storm) / II - Prelude to act 2 / III - "Ride of the Valkyries"(Prelude and scene 1 ("Hojotoho! Heiaha") from act 3) / IV - Magic Fire Music (act 3)
I,II - Conductor - Daniel Barenboim /Scala / 2010
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Die Walküre
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. Die Walküre's best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries".
Wagner took his tale from the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.
It received its premiere at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870 at the insistence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It premiered in Wagner's Bayreuth Festival as part of the complete cycle on 14 August 1876. The opera made its United States premiere at the Academy of Music in New York on 2 April 1877.
Noted excerpts
- Prelude to act 1 (The opening storm)
- Siegmund Spring Song and duet with Sieglinde ("Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond") (act 1)
- Prelude to act 2
- Wotan's Monologue (act 2)
- Brünnhilde's Announcement of Siegmund's Death (act 2)
- "Ride of the Valkyries" (Prelude and scene 1 ("Hojotoho! Heiaha") from act 3)
- Brünnhilde's pleading (War es so schmählich) (act 3)
- Wotan's Farewell ("Leb' wohl") (act 3)
- Magic Fire Music (act 3)
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