Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries - Ring (Official Video)

[@PerfectTommy81]

My two young daughters also watch this whole production when it aired on PBS, they went around house, when it was over, shrieking to each other for days!!

[@AlvaSudden]

Precious!

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

OH that is Wonderful I Love Young Girls and their imaginations. My Young Nieces used to Twirl around as did Wonder Woman for Years.

[@thefingerofgod69]

This is why we have the arts! YES!!!!!!!!

[@lindameneken998]

Lawrence, how fantastic! These warrior sopranos sparked your daughters' imagination. I hope they're still singing and shrieking!

[@itemeodem2616]

Lawrence Tucker mein Lieber, germanische Mythologie vom Feinsten im Geschmack des 19 Jhr.. Goten, Vandalen, Kelten Sachsen Franken, Slawen, Chauken, Friesen , Angeln etc....letztlich auch die Stammvölker aus dem ihr (USAmerikaner) seit. Wir sind was wir sind

[@neilryan4166]

I'm blown away by the first Valkyrie as she takes the stage after getting off her horse. Her body language says she has all the confidence and swagger in the world. She then proceeds to nail it.

[@micheal49]

Could only be better if she'd been Klingon.

[@benwiles7433]

@@micheal49 they are at least half way there!

[@Ella7194]

Nurses and NAs that work in the VA Healthcare System are 20th and 21st century valkyries. 👍✊👊 We..I..nailed it every day💪

[@JasonMcChristian]

@@Ella7194 slaughtering everything in sight?

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

She is a badass for sure, wagners music in the backround sure makes it easier for her to "swag".

[@stephengould4343]

I saw it live at the Met, and the first moment as you see the Valkyries "riding" was one of the high points of all my years going to the opera. Unsurprisingly, the audience burst into applause then as well.

[@Tenortalker]

These girls are having a great time riding the decor and sliding on to the set! They really are a terrific team of Valkyries. They have such energy and zest - you could count on these girls to get you to Valhalla!

[@Highwaystarrr8]

This production of "Die Valkyrie" changed my opinion of opera. I now get it. Watched the first two parts of the Cycle already. Part three tonight! The opening of Act 3 is amazing. Wagner was a rockstar. Turn this up loud! Love this!!!

[@keouine]

Find the 60s recording with Jon Vickers IMO he's the best Siegmund ever.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

This is not opera, this is Wagner.

[@Ebrill_Owen]

Ah yes, the sacred and ancient tradition of “girls night”!

[@himatstosh6236]

sure.

[@pGar]

Underrated comment 😂

[@kateshermon4900]

Made me laugh - thank u

[@JayTohab]

Bro, this puts "guys hangout" to shame

[@단풍민첩한]

Made me cough so hard😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@richardpaxford5792]

I love how they joyfully greet each other as Sister-Warriors ❤

[@bondo5696]

I recall when my wife's (at the time) voice teacher told me that she could actually sing Wagner as it should be sung, she had a voice and the stature to do it. She still scares me as the ladies are meant to do. Outstanding production and singing. Thank you Wolf

[@katford7286]

I know this production got its share of bad notices, but I loved it. This scene is particularly thrilling. Lepage's creative vision is daring and created some truly masterful effects. The Met outdid itself by assembling the best Wagnerian singers for this demanding work. I applaud them for this because this is what will keep opera fresh for new generations.

[@shemitch]

Bad notices? How is that possible?! This is spectacular!!

[@brumels1570]

@@shemitch The Machine was considered costly, noisy, and limited in expression. Also one of the singers did not the voice for the role.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Gelb the Nazi and Wagner. How adorable.

[@vovakozac5588]

Согласен с Вами.Здесь нет рутины и занудства. В исполнителях , оркестре, постановке бьется кипучая кровь и пульс жизни. Браво метрополитен. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@matthewk2780]

My youngest son, who is now 6 yrs old, sat and watched this opera when PBS aired the entire show over a week's time. He knew when it was on and would come sit on the couch with me and turn it to the t.v channel. He loves this type of programming and classical music from composer's like Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and other's like them. I am proud that my kids are interested in threater and classical arts.

[@JoshuaBlogshua]

World's. Greatest. Dad.

[@robertridley9279]

He might be gay

[@matthewk2780]

***** At least my son's think so. I just try to get him interested in classical music and theatre arts.

[@matthewk2780]

Robert Ridley Dude, get a life. and quit annoying the rest of the world.

[@liliantso9767]

I don't know about him, but you are probably gay according to your logic.

[@CrackSmonka]

My grandad has just passed away. He really was like a father for me, and this was his favourite piece of art. This will always be his song for me, and it will always bring me tears of joy and wonder. I wish you meet Wagner up there, granpa.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

This is not a song nor a piece of art. This is just a small piece from the much bigger whole...

[@tg2832]

I am an atheist and don't believe in an afterlife, but if there is a heaven(and there isn't) Wagner won't be there; he hated Jewish people, I love his music, but he was a real prick

[@RossiniSoprano]

It would have been nice for them to list the cast. Here they are: Gerhilde soprano, KELLY CAE HOGAN Helmwige Soprano, MOLLY FILLMORE Waltraute mezzo, MARJORIE ELINOR DIX Schwertleite mezzo, MARY PHILLIPS Ortlinde sop., WENDY BRYN HARMER Siegrune mezzo, EVE GIGLIOTTI Grimgerde mezzo, MARY ANN McCORMICK Rossweisse mezzo, LINDSAY AMMANN

[@gold2chrome]

Ortlinde's singing at 02:22 can be understood by a German... Thanks.

[@davidbrown3014]

Elise Curran Thank you so much for giving credit where it was so very much deserved!

[@ballisticus1]

Thank you. Was going to ask for a link to the cast

[@RICKANDDIANNE]

Thank you.

[@centromedicopontevedra]

Great contribution indeed. Thanks for the information, I was looking for it.

[@thirdgen377]

Man, the vocals are spine-chilling good. I've heard and watched this clip countless times and it continues to impress and get better with each viewing.

[@hrh4961]

Practice makes perfect.

[@johnferguson4089]

Absolutely BRILLIANT! I had this playing so loudly that my neighbours all should know it by now. This somewhat unusual presentation is thrilling and spectacular. Applause to all involved!

[@fredo1070]

The first Valkyrie to slide down and sing is Kelly Cae Hogan, who is now an amazing Brunhilde.

[@SalGuod473]

Seen it live at Lincoln Center 3 times. Thrilling and exhausting

[@nadetomirkova4943]

I LOVE, VERY LOVE THE PERFORMANCES OF Metropolitan Opera !!! I OFTEN WATCH Metropolitan Opera"s PERFORMANCES IN SINEMA SITY in Sofia - Bulgaria !!! FANTASTIC PERFORMANCES !!! ENDLESS THANK You Dear Director and Dear Managers of Metropolitan Opera !!! Always with a lot of love and light Your eternal fan Mrs Nadezhda Hristova Mirkova from Sofia - Bulgaria !!!

[@Timotheus157]

I am awe struck! Tears actually welled up in my eyes. Magnificent! I LOVE the Valkyries!

[@MizzWGGrrrl]

I had much the same reaction! After years of hearing it on that Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon, hearing it in "Apocalypse Now", excerpted in the Maxell cassette tape commercial, and hearing it _everywhere_...I finally see a performance of same. I wept and kept on weeping after it was over. Perfection, awe, and joy.

[@donaldelley2802]

One of the greatest Opera compositions of all time - performed and choreographed so well

[@DannyEastVillage]

I've been to this production twice--the year it opened and this year. I was so not-sold the first time, but now!! omg!! it's a lifetime experience! Every moment of all four operas! It just doesn't get old! I've got gooseflesh just thinking about it..

[@willygarcia2144]

These women look so powerful, particularly the first of them seems a true warrior queen. Just seeing her anyone would be inspired to fight against any thing.

[@birdchas]

Just imagine them leading a battle ? In case you did not know , when in battle against the Roman's the Germans ( Barbarians) will send their single women naked and screaming to confuse the Roman centaurs, which it worked for they will become disoriented watching these naked Fraulines...a good battle tactic..lol

[@liyanam7888]

Woman are Powerful, no doubt about this.

[@alammons7947]

Incredible video. I saw 2 performances of this opera in San Francisco about 40+ years ago and was stunned. This performance is overwhelming to put it mildly.

[@winfriedmaus]

7 years late to the party, but anyway: They're Valkyries. They are in the service of the God Wotan/Odin and collect the fallen warriors who died in honor from the battle field and carry them on their (flying) horses to Valhalla where they have earned their place at Odin's table, where they are allowed to feast for eternity. And yes, the Valkyries ARE warriors. The Ride of the Valkyries actually takes place when they meet, each of them carrying fallen warriors (which is what they are singing about, and how they fought and died and who was the enemy of who). If you like the Valkyries, by all means, listen to the entire 14 (!) hours of the whole Ring. I'd also recommend Wagner's very first opera: The Flying Dutchman. Wagner is the only composer who ever lived who actually was able to capture a full-blown storm on the ocean in music. The story is also great and deeply romantic: It's about a merchant who is cursed to stay on sea for seven years in a row before he is allowed to set foot on land for ONE night in order to find love that then will lift the curse which will allow him to finally sink into the ocean. (Remember: Literature from the romantic period is NOT about happy endings. Frankenstein is also romantic literature, by the way. Or Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, which Iron Maiden put so nicely into music.) Bits and pieces of The Flying Dutchman were "recycled" in the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies.

[@_vodkamartini_]

This is seriously the most epic thing I have ever seen... I've heard the song many times (the instrumental version.) But this! This! Is life :D

[@Fanchen]

That's because this is music based off of written epics.

[@TheresaMadame]

My dear, try and find a performance of this opera live -- you have no idea how much life is in the whole thing. ANd try to see Gotterdammerung, which sums up the entire cycle in the first scene and then comes to a glorious end four hours later. Wagner is the STUFF!

[@ethanperreault7470]

@@Fanchen Funny seeing you here randomly lol. You should play the Liebestod if you feel Inclined to, it would show some people from around the internet the beauty of Wagner.

[@chefandmusician9170]

18th century music

[@PaulGruendlerBeau]

It was a live cinema theater event! Do not miss the next one!

[@rohan212121]

Fabulous singing, amazing theatre, and a superb orchestra and conductor. Excellent post. Thank you.

[@Cant-Think-Of-Anythink-Better]

That slide, RESPECT

[@saetmusic]

Fantastic set design! Wonderful Wagnerian sopranos!! But underneath it all - WHAT AN ORCHESTRA!!!

[@drewqq]

The stage set is so innovative and beautiful. Right away you get the undulation of the galloping horses and it makes the entire set come alive. Well done.

[@14SoCalStretch88]

A comment I had made in the thread between you a Gina seems to have been deleted, and I can no longer post in it so I will piggyback your comment up here. I absolutely loved the stage design here and I am glad they did not use horse heads because, as it is in this video, the Valkyrie look like they are just riding in on the wind instead of some boring old horses which lends itself to their myth, and it just looks more romantic and grandiose.

[@franl155]

totally agree with you! normally you get the women at stage level - this is about the fifth clip I viewed, trying to find something that bit special - and found it here! not only the marvellously imaginative staging, but none of the women wander off-mike and get their voices lost!!

[@ShaggyOtis]

the way they did it, the Valkyries are riding on whatever the viewer chooses to see. If one is tasteless or unimaginative, they will see piano keys or something... But with an imagination, the whole set comes alive, as you said, and the images of horses and clouds and wind come in.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

​@@ShaggyOtisits delibarete it is shaped like a phallus. I sense sexual energy here and I think Wagner intended this.

[@angelaevoy8918]

I absolutely love this production of Das Rheingold. The set is stunning and the characters are stunning.

[@ambrosejoseph4843]

its Die Walkure,

[@rainbow6562012]

The women seem to be having a first-class time of it. Bravo!

[@JoelAWeiss]

Forgive the brag, but I'm married to one of those warrior sopranos.

[@ok-kk3ic]

Joel Weiss / Lol which one?

[@JoelAWeiss]

@@ok-kk3ic first one down the slide.

[@jewelscash8752]

Congrats-no doubt a talented power couple! Unforgettable entrance!

[@kelvblackstorm5819]

So you've been brought to valhalla then 😄

[@acanthusfacilitairedienstv9047]

Joel Weiss I feel sorry for you.....

[@cindyreeves5048]

Although I studied classical voice, when I hear this Wagner piece all I see is Bugs Bunny!! (Thank you Dr. Ott; my Music History prof.)

[@eileenfrank3686]

Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd!

[@SamuelWiegand]

❤

[@SamuelWiegand]

❤

[@SamuelWiegand]

❤

[@tcoreyb]

Come on, how can anyone deny that this is one of the two or three greatest melodies written in the history of mankind (not to mention the whole composition and harmony). The music transcends the immediate (and sometimes silly) staging.

[@denizozbek4134]

Its so wrong to say this. I mean i get your point but listen to tchaikovskys ouverture 1812, listen to mussorgskys pictures of an exhibition, listen to wagners lohengrin opening there are plenty of melodies like that.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

​@@denizozbek4134amina koydugumun cahili, gelmiş burada sigir caykovskiyle wagneri kıyaslıyor bir de 1812 diyor. Siktir git kumda oyna, bocek.

[@andresfcastanoescritor]

Wagner!!! Music like an absolute idea. The total masterwork. What a genius!!

[@bluebat7496]

I love that dismount stomp. Odin's daughters have arrived and people for miles around know it. 😃

[@mdhernandez9559]

The only thing missing in all of this is a few mini-guns and some 2.75 rockets. What superb voices they have.

[@afrazzini]

Absolutely stunning and chills inducing

[@roxystarcallan53]

I am aiming to be one of these ladies. HOLY GOD.

[@MorganleFayable]

Count me in!

[@vikli5966]

silverbud imagine denying the fact that Wagner, despite his talents, was an anti Semitic bitch.

[@popeclementine9429]

Wagner was totally anti-Semitic. No Wagner in Israel. So if you like this kind of music... you're probably a racist. Hey don't get mad, the way things are going these days, being white is immediately a racist. Blame BLM.

[@renatospinelli4254]

Those are the best Valkyries I've ever heard

[@koenraadjacobs3078]

Amazing. Great setting and powerful voices. One of the best versions I ever saw and heard.

[@SpencerOstrowskyTV2]

Their voices are absolutely amazing considering they are un mic'ed and the size of Wagner's orchestra. It's simply unbelievable

[@moow950]

Of course they are miked!

[@keouine]

Are you sure? In opera that's like steroids and drug enhancers in Olympics or pro-sports.@@moow950

[@PaulMackSomers]

@@moow950 Only for the purpose of being recorded, but not for amplification for the audience.

[@wotan10950]

I was at this Saturday matinee performance. We'd been a little wary since we'd heard some negative things about the production. But it was brilliant and really worked in most scenes. It took a few seconds to realize that the Valkyries were on horses, but then it was sheer delight. And those planks created a great acoustic. Having said that, for me nothing will ever top the final scene with Hildegard Behrens and James Morris in the old staging.

[@peteradaniel]

+Dave Glo I thought theatre was burning down at the end of Otto Schenk's Ring. The last production was absolutely mesmerising. His smoke effects were fantastic. I'm so glad I caught it's final run. Fantastic.

[@popeclementine9429]

Behrens, that's pretty old school

[@MaxwellsDemon9]

Some critics panned the set, and I can't understand that at all. I thought it was gorgeous and the conception brilliant. Was a little creaky and noisy though! :p

[@scottledbetter7212]

Behrens , absolutely fantastic

[@harinagarajan2296]

That farewell was something else. Even today i get tears when watching and listening. James Morris was truly magnificent. And that little episode when he dismisses Hunding. Oooh! That was something else and what a Hunding and Jessye Norman. One of the most moving interpretations of Siegelinde. I am glad to have seen your comment! Hari

[@alicesharpie3239]

This is something else it's marvellous and at 1:15 the confidence it's everything. So lovely

[@condedetrevino]

I cannot say that the Met's version is the best, but it is certainly most enjoyable. Thank you so very much for sharing.

[@paulpratt]

I get goosebumps whenever I hear Wagner...must be a genetic-level response.

[@jmballestra7607]

Mise en scène sublime !!! Musique splendide !!! Bravo au " Metropolitan Opera " , une des plus magnifiques scènes du monde !!!!

[@joselopes2293]

It is a part of an opera that strikingly translates both strength and rapture. Keeping the listener in constant internal insecurity. Only a outstanding and genial composer like Wagner could do it.The soloists are superb and the conductor and orchestra are amazing. Viva Wagner and his unbelievable music.

[@robynlynnellebaker3378]

When you’ve fought many personal battles, you play this to empower yourself. To press on. It also works well when you need to do the dishes...as a Valkyrie. Sing as a Valkyrie=goal. 💕 I do have a recital coming up, but nothing from Wagner.

[@katford7286]

Got tickets to this for the Met's upcoming 2018-19 season. I cannot wait to see this amazing production.

[@praemdonck]

Every time I listen to the ride of the Valkyrie I wonder how much inspiration John Williams got from it to compose the Star Wars theme

[@anaihilator]

I have said for YEARS, the SW scores wouldn't exist without Wagner

[@jackie9-z2t]

I was listening to this with my 6 year old tonight and he said it sounded like something from Star Wars

[@filipposangalli13]

me too, you're right

[@MizzWGGrrrl]

I had to go and check...the parody film "Hardware Wars" does open with "Ride of the Valkyries". kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYqyhI2tmp18mM0

[@PatrickSterenchuk]

Gives me chills. Excellent! I love this staging.

[@anti666luv]

Just the most amazing staging, modern and classic all at once. Stunning, beautiful. I could watch it a hundred times.

[@fcamiola]

Saw this live last night at The Met....incredible!

[@jewelscash8752]

Nice work if you can get it 😉 I am grateful it's here for me.

[@jeanmarieballestra7892]

Une mise en scène moderne remarquable pour cette page splendide !! L'essentiel reste la musique , laquelle est immuable et éternelle !!!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The heroic melody‘s comfort of this masterpiece isirreplaceable , incomparable Living in the hustle and bustle of my everyday routine in Tokyo , I sometimes want to listening to this vigorous masterpiece . From chaotic Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@rainbow6562012]

What a wonderful and striking spectacle! Bless Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc for introducing me as a child to this glorious music, as well as to the Largo from the Barber of Seville and so many other jewels in the Looney Tunes cartoons.

[@tracytaylor1130]

thank you Elmer Fudd.

[@SEELE-ONE]

I’m never looking at a park seesaw the same way again...

[@williamdavid5737]

I love the Valkyries and their Queen Freya as they ride across the sky on their mounts and Freya in her chariot pulled by two enormous cats!

[@jrgptr935]

Freya? Katzen? Bei Wagner heißt sie Fricka, und der Wagen wird von einem Widdergespann gezogen. Freya? Cats? Wagner calls her Fricka, and the chariot is pulled by a team of rams.

[@2009grifin1]

I saw this live and it was spectacular!

[@someinteresting]

Are we jealous? Yes, of course we are.

[@timothyissler3815]

Someone please explain how this is 'inaccessible". What is inaccessible about lovely warrior women singing in German to some of the most boss music ever written?

[@aclark903]

Subtitles would help. Sprecken de #Deutch nein.

[@aclark903]

@eric kowalski At my High school we more or less had to do #French or #German. I went with French. Now I don't regret that, because I ended up working for a French organization and living with a French woman, but you're right, German is also worthy of study.

[@aclark903]

@eric kowalski Thank you for your kind words. Every language is a new window on the world. #Kant is an even better reason to learn German than Wagner.

[@kittykatz4001]

I hardly know anything about opera and I have no knowledge of the German language, but this is exciting (in a good way!) and beautiful to listen to. The music gets the blood pumping-invigorating! I imagine (though probably unlikely) the musicians working up a sweat as the perform this music because it’s invigorating (to my ears).

[@micheal49]

Minor correction: you misspelled "bosom".

[@joanaangelicasoareslima3487]

Among the TOP 10 BEST PRODUCTIONS of DIE WALKURE EVER! CONGRATS,MET, this is a true WAGNERIAN conception!

[@SoliloquyFilms]

Watched on a live broadcast, the best 6 hours of my life

[@godzilloid]

I can just see the Valkyries sliding down going "Wheeeeee!"

[@aristocraticrebel]

Best version ever.

[@rohan212121]

Thats a powerful group of singers. Bravissimo.

[@AdeleDusenbury]

Can't wait! This year I'm going to the Met for the entire "Ring" - starting with "Das Rheingold" in just six days time. Of course I have nothing to do with it, but still I feel proud of the Met for commissioning the Lepage set and sticking by it and now after seven years putting it into motion again. This set can be beautiful; it's abstract; it's versatile in how it can move, how it can reflect images, how it can become woods... or a fire. Oh!...and it's not "dangerous!" Thank you Metropolitan Opera making such a huge commitment in terms of resources and time to Wagner's extravagant, outrageously ambitious, and spectacularly long, Der Ring des Nibelungen. P.S. Nice having a New Yorker sing Brünnhilde.

[@AdeleDusenbury]

I went! The audience was enthralled, and I think we all felt a sense of wonder at the beauty and professionalism presented to us over the course of three and a half hours (no intermission). I liked that operators of the "machine" came out at the end to take a bow, too. They were instantly recognized and clapping roared some more. There were about fifteen of them - dressed in black - men and women.

[@tfleiter]

@@AdeleDusenbury I enjoyed it also very much -absolute fantastic theater. walkuere tomorrow!

[@AdeleDusenbury]

@@tfleiter Yes Walkure tomorrow for me, too.

[@anaihilator]

Not only is Brunhilde a NYer..she lives in Paramus , NJ Jersey in the house!

[@AdeleDusenbury]

@@anaihilator I forgot about that! Well, she grew up on Long Island and now lives across the Hudson in New Jersey. In my mind she's "local." I went to Die Walküre yesterday. When Christine entered to meet with Wotan, the audience gave her a big welcome- lots of applause. Made me happy.

[@barrystein5692]

Beautifully sung. Very exciting, but years ago Seattle Opera did a production of the Ring and had the Valkyries on flying horses. Now that was a theatrical feat that in my view is unequaled. I was in the chorus and was lucky enough to see the dress rehearsal.

[@ShaggyOtis]

I'm glad they made the set the way they did. If they would have actually put horse heads up on there and tried to make it actually look like anything more, it would've looked cheap, or inauthentic to many people. However, if they leave it to the viewer's imagination, it looks however the viewer pleases. It was a tasteful move.

[@coldironhands1]

yeah because something that would be cool looking would be really expensive. I get it, idk how the designers don't see the sexual undertones, but maybe sexuality is represented with allegories in vogner a lot

[@AudieHolland]

From the looks of the state the dead heroes are in, aren't the Valkyries rather late? I would have thought they would show up the night or a few nights following the battle but those remains look like they have lain there for at least a year. - And of course Valkyries are sexy. A female warrior, what sexier image can there be?

[@mairwyncurtis2102]

Sexual? WTF....it's a see-saw from a playground. The only thing missing was a roundabout. Costumes great...set design....load of crap! And we KNOW they gather the dead. No need to SEE bones ffs. Have the masses become THAT stupid that they need the undertones brought into the light of day.

[@darkinetix]

But the individual slats ARE horse heads/faces til the Valkyrie slides off, then the respective slat files into the background cloud/smoke effect... maybe you meant some sort of fake/stuffed horse head?

[@joa8593]

I've actually heard this scene was a pain for the singers as their skirts would catch on the giant see-saw device.

[@tonykellen8989]

This is my favorite performance of the opening of Act III. That Gerhilde who starts the vocal fireworks is awesome!!!

[@johnsloat9683]

The original grrrrrrl power!

[@sofia.morenska]

That's what I'm saying!

[@popeclementine9429]

Don't forget, they all still answer to a MAN. Nicht wahr?

[@vizcondem0ntuen431]

VALKYRJA...........

[@NA-AN]

@@popeclementine9429Girrl power still. They’re powerful girls

[@EyeLean5280]

Saw this production live - - - a once in a lifetime experience!

[@neilryan4166]

I like the crowd's reaction when they see the wooden horses appear on stage.

[@marycavender7136]

I love the intensity of the performance! What brilliant voices with such awesome clarity and stamina! It builds a story in my mind like a blind person sees it! I have cateracs bad, but I can feel the depth of the performance!🌹👍🤗❤️🎵🎼🎶🇩🇪🖤💛❤️🎭🤔

[@Roheryn100]

Up to now I had only heard of this production and thought the whole scene conception ludicrous and laughable. And then I saw this video .Wow. Was I wrong ! The first production I ever have seen to actually CONVINCE me these are warrior princesses !

[@cherilynlarsen8104]

Amazing singing and brilliant set design.

[@anudarib]

This is beautiful, got goosebumps

[@danbev8542]

Gives me goosebumps. Every. Time!

[@Woo5ter]

As a lover of opera this to me is the pièce de ré·sis·tance!

[@georgeschade7462]

Absolutely loved the set design. It was amazing how many different ways a “set of straight boards can be used

[@sharonashcraft6358]

BEAUTIFUL JUST BEAUTIFUL

[@JordanVanRyn]

This was one of the coolest things they did with the Valkyries. By using the planks to create horses and their costumes and voices were really incredible, especially Deborah Voight who played Brundhilde, who is so incredibly heroic! She was the heart of the whole story and Deborah nailed that role with her acting as well as singing.

[@dogfather68]

That was absolutely remarkable!

[@ABRAHAMKENAN]

Bravi tutti !!!!!!!!!!! i have seen the whole "ring" night after night, non plus ultra,perfection and immagination. I am happy to find it here on youtube,thanks for the add.

[@t.hernandez1887]

Me encanta esta puesta en escena

[@Littleindiemarshmallow]

Absolutely Wonderful!

[@veve3948]

Magnifique mise en scène , voix puissantes et bouleversantes. J'aurais adoré assister au spectacle mais New-York est un peu loin de chez moi ! Impossible de ne pas penser au film Apocalypse Now qui aura définitivement marqué ma génération !!

[@marthamagda2054]

thank you for sharing this glorious scene. I love this.

[@andrewlankford9634]

Valkyries singing while going up and down on seesaws. That's artistry there.

[@reymohammed7040]

I cracked up, frankly.

[@GermanGreetings]

New York has never been welcomed more heartily in Walhall, than by those ladies... :) Just kneeling down here: What a performance !

[@AndersGardebring]

Coming back here to remember this epic performance, getting goose bumps and tears in my eyes remembering the feeling of sitting in row two and watching this live...

[@PaulGruendlerBeau]

goosebumps on my CALVES!

[@uferlosa9016]

Gänsehaut sogar an den Beinen!!! "Wundervoll!!!!

[@jackalker6384]

she smashed that note at 1:47

[@Obaysch]

Unbelievable top. Any idea who that is?

[@Mike-zh1ew]

I Know, I got chills

[@shakespeare9712]

It’s just a B. Just sounds high because Wagner rarely even touches the high C.

[@maryvaillancourt1158]

Yesss

[@neilryan4166]

You've got that right!!!!

[@dancoomer8090]

This is just a tremendous staging of some of opera's greatest music.

[@Xerxes2005]

The director of the show was famed Quebecois playwright Robert Lepage. He directed the whole Ring Cycle for the Met.

[@bryankirshon3436]

One of my favourite classical pieces

[@Nacidodelmar]

OMG! When I saw it, one of the girls came down from one of those structures and rolled down almost to the orchestra pit! She did NOT stop singing for a moment, and when she came up she got a GREAT OVATION! I panic when I see this!

[@MaxwellsDemon9]

Funny, but you're totally lying. LOL

[@Brvnkaerv]

Awesome music, Great set, Foxy sopranos!

[@drhandle4498]

You can't beat The Ring in the original Klingon.

[@QuasarRedshift]

LOL

[@Holger_aka_Schmudi]

Hahahaha ... unfortunately not heared the original untill kow. You have a KZbin link???

[@SVSky]

[@popeclementine9429]

Klingon is overrated. German is the original Klingon. And look, they got beat.

[@8MasterX]

Nice!

[@bonniemccarthy8207]

Nothing else like it. Brava!!

[@danieldubei]

this music, and this scene in particular is so damn awesome

[@zephyr755]

Listening from 3:50 and especially from 4:06, some of the most thrilling sounds in musical literature

[@johanalsen7665]

Did see the complet Der Ring between 2010 to 2012. It was one of the best opera I've seen and this scen is one of the greatest for me.