Wagner: Die Walkure (Thielemann)

from the Bayreuth Festival, August 2010
Certificate: N/A
Running Time: c.259 mins
Retail Price: £29.99
Release Date: 01/03/2011
Content Type: Musical Recording

Synopsis:
Christian Thielemann, " by common consent the leading Wagner conductor of our time" (Die Presse), returns to Bayreuth for this radiant account of Die Walküre filmed at the 2010 festival.

Appearing on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time, it provides the only audio-visual document of Tankred Dorst's Ring production, and follows the hugely successful release of the whole cycle of on CD.

Two new singers join the cast: Johan Botha as siegmund, who was showered with praise by the press ("ideal vocal casting" in the words of the critic on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and Edith Haller, with her "beautiful, strong soprano voice" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) as his sister and lover Sieglinde.

Special Features:
Cast Gallery

"Die ich mir zur Wal erkor" - Making of Die Walküre

Related Websites:
http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/english/english_156.html
http://www.opusarte.com/en/