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Richard Wagner operas
Die Feen (1833)
Das Liebesverbot (1836)
Rienzi (1842)
Der fliegende Holländer (1843)
Tannhäuser (1845)
Lohengrin (1847)
Tristan und Isolde (1859)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867)
Das Rheingold (1869)
Die Walküre (1870)
Siegfried (1871)
Götterdämmerung (1874)
Parsifal (1882)

“Die Walküre” by Richard Wagner

The Valkyrie

Premiere / date of written: 26 June 1870

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.

Libretti

# Language Authors
1 German Richard Wagner
2 English Frederick Jameson
3 French Alfred Ernst

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Audio recordings

Year Cast
Conductor,
Opera chorus and orchestra
Label,
Comment
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1965

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James King (Siegmund),
Régine Crespin (Sieglinde),
Hans Hotter (Wotan),
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde),
Gottlob Frick (Hunding),
Christa Ludwig (Fricka)
Sir Georg Solti
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD: Decca Cat: 414 105-2 Stereo, Studio

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