Richard Wagner | Die Walküre | Wiener Staatsoper | 2015

Simon Rattle | Dirigent Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Regie Rolf Glittenberg | Bühne Marianne Glittenberg | Kostüme Christopher Ventris | Siegmund Mikhail Petrenko | Hunding Michael Volle | Wotan Martina Serafin | Sieglinde Evelyn Herlitzius | Brünnhilde Elisabeth Kulman | Fricka ACT I Completely exhausted whilst trying to escape from his pursuers, Siegmund the Wälsung reaches Hunding’s hut. Sieglinde, Hunding’s wife, shelters the hero and gives him something to drink. When Hunding returns home, Siegmund tells him of a life filled with tragedy. Hunding soon realizes that the man before him is the one he had set out to kill. Bound by the laws of hospitality, he puts off his fight with the unarmed Siegmund until the next morning. Sieglinde gives her husband a sleeping potion, and helps Siegmund to obtain an enchanted sword which a mysterious stranger once drove into the trunk of an ash tree. A passionate love develops between Siegmund and Sieglinde, who real