Opera House | Main Stage
26 April 3 | 17 | 24 May 2006 - 6:00 PM
Following the premiere in 2003, the critics wrote:
Sweeping, marvellous and convincing performance of Wagner’s magnificent drama.
Splendid start on Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Theatre.
Sharp, captivating and detailed.
Breathlessly exciting epic performance of The Ring.
Raging, full-blooded theatre.
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Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
Staging: Kasper Bech Holten
Sets and costume designer: Marie í Dali and Steffen Aarfing
Lighting designer: Jesper Kongshaug
Dramaturge: Henrik Engelbrecht
Duration: Approximately 5 hours including intermissions.
Die Walküre will be performed in German with Danish supertitles. |
Synopsis
A man flees from his foes. He arrives at a house where he is met by a woman, Sieglinde. She is married to the owner of the house, Hunding. The stranger and Sieglinde both find that there is some-thing eerily familiar about the other. Hunding arrives home and
asks who the stranger is. The stranger tells them that his family was attacked when he was a child – his mother was killed and his twin sister abducted. He and the father lived as outlaws in the forests until the father disappeared one day.
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