Performer: Brit-Tone Müllertz

In Die Walküre, we once again delve into absurd AI-generated visual worlds and disjointed associations. Musically, however, this Ring cycle remains well worth listening to.

The plot thickens as "episode two" of Bayreuth's new Ring muddies the waters of Siegfried’s paternity and Wotan comes to regret his actions.

Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden orchestra are let down by sub-optimal singers in Willy Deckers chair-laden production of  Die Walküre. 

With Götterdämmerung the Linz Ring came to a controversial conclusion with a graphic depiction of Siegfried violently raping a defenceless Brünnhilde, and Hagen entertaining his father Alberich, and his mother.

Some beautiful singing from Michael Bedjai as Siegmund and Brit-Tone Müller as Sieglinde set a high standard in this Landestheater Linz production of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre.

Dans ce deuxième épisode de la Tétralogie, le plateau s'épanouit tandis que la mise en scène, toujours efficace, montre peu à peu ses limites.