Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie - Ride of the Valkyries

[@iowndvc]

Love the score, but you know you're old when you hear the music and in you're mind you hear Elmer Fudd singing Kill the Wabbit.

[@markcameron360]

…or something about the smell of napalm!

[@Mdeaccosta]

Elmer: Oh, Bwunhilda, You're so wovewy... Bugs: Yes, I know it, I can't help it. 🎶

[@elizabethdunn1466]

Lol

[@elizabethdunn1466]

Too true

[@cyndielake4092]

Hollywood has a lot to answer for!😂😂😂

[@fugithegreat]

The fact that the women's voices can still carry over that hefty orchestra at full volume is amazing!

[@juliesczesny90]

Coloratura Sopranos, baby!

[@markschmitt2834]

There are microphones in front of the singers

[@nandeboleine]

@@juliesczesny90or as I was called growing up “shrill and piercing” 😂 So I owned it and became an opera singer.

[@michaelr3583]

They did the damn thing

[@ben-c5t]

And ist not even the usually Schrankmöbel.

[@robertclark4584]

Looney Tunes is what taught me to appreciate classical music and I passed it to my children. It was wonderful growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything.

[@michaelmanger8640]

Loony tunes brought the world of opera and classical music to my ears, too. ✌🏽❤️💛🖤🎶🇦🇺

[@jandermuniz2113]

Eu também sempre admirei Looney Tunes por ambientar as animações com músicas clássicas!

[@kevinosorio7271]

Saammme!😂

[@MrYfrank14]

I read some where thatthe only reason they used classical music in Looney Tunes was because it was so old it was free to use and they were too cheap to pay for the rights to music.

[@StanEngland]

Watched some of those just this morning.

[@edwardsacharewicz5511]

I am a British Army Veteran. Was Airborne. I've 25 years service. This was our Military March sounds. Played by the Parachute Regimental Band.

[@1982rrose]

Why?

[@kegginstructure]

When you are a battlefield and suddenly hear that music plus the shrieks, laughs, and songs of the Valkyries, get ready for a ride... to Valhalla.

[@schurlbirkenbach1995]

Correct, originally, before christianization, the valkyries collected the fallen warriors and guided them to valhalla. Those who died in their beds peacefully, went to Hel, the goddess of death. Our word hell ist derived from Hel

[@righthandwolf306]

May we ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

[@jerroldbates355]

Well said!😅

[@snowholeoutdoors1769]

almost correct... Freyja has first choice of the fallen warriors, who go to Fólkvangr. The other half then goes to Valhǫll. @@schurlbirkenbach1995

[@Calibrex_Gaming]

Suicide notes

[@putinkhuylo]

'Magnificent' is a gross understatement. Those ladies added another dimension to the performance. Bravo! 💥

[@michaelshore2300]

More !! Dimensions I think

[@woodsmanforlife1677]

The Eurasian one esp.

[@davidkelly3751]

Brave

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

@@woodsmanforlife1677 Ironic that they gave her the lead and couldn't find a Nordic singer. Probably intentional.

[@stupadasol5911]

Didn't understand a word they sang, but those women surpassed the orchestra in my enjoyment of the performance. Well done ladies.

[@jenellienostrabo]

Oh Warfather on high, I am calling you from the battlefield And as I take my last breath I call for the mightiest of miracles For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to the ancient Valhalla Oh Warfather on high Listen to my prayer I lived my life by your rules Oh let death cover me now

[@simonbennett-f5j]

100% agree

[@EverybodysWrong]

O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing, ever waning, hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy fate is against me in health and virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. so at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man, everyone weep with me

[@aaronag7876]

Absolutely outstanding. Gave me goosebumps and the hairs on my neck and arms were standing up. Sadly Ive never heard it sung by such amazing singers, Ive only ever heard the instrumental version. Ive saved this to watch again. Just truly soul inspiring vocals by all the ladies.

[@martinalenz5029]

@@TrondheimSymfoniorkesterOpera thank you all for this magic Moment .❤️🙋‍♀️

[@alexanderg-p3z]

Spitze!

[@richardcramer1604]

Same here, 1st time hearing what I asume are the Valkyries singing (I don't understand German). I thought it was great!

[@JohnMoore-xf5wy]

Neither had I! Incredible!

[@somedayzo6]

I never knew there were singers either! Unbelievably amazing! Gets the blood pumping!

[@iDuckman]

I love the staging. Simple and effective. And no horned helmets. When I hear this I am reminded how well the human voice can stand up to a full orchestra without electrification.

[@ben-c5t]

Horned helmets are debunked as offenkundige falsifikation.

[@alamudesky1959]

Needs horned helmets

[@tiportangeles2696]

My pops used to put this on the record player and I run madly around the house and jump on the furniture. I miss the 60's.

[@tonypegler9080]

Oh Warfather on high I am calling you from the battlefield And as I take my last breath I call for the mightiest of miracles For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to the ancient Valhalla Oh Warfather on high Listen to my prayer I lived my life by your rules Oh let death cover me now For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to Valhalla of old [Chorus] With the Valkyries, ride over the battlefield Ride your horses and come to me I'm waiting for you to take my soul, high in the sky to Valhalla of old Valkyries, ride over the battlefield I'm dying and glad to bleed Because I know today I will take my place with the heroes In Valhalla of old For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to Valhalla of old [Chorus] With the Valkyries, ride over the battlefield Ride your horses and come to me I'm waiting for you to take my soul, high in the sky to Valhalla of old Valkyries, ride over the battlefield I'm dying and glad to bleed Because I know today I will take my place with the heroes In Valhalla of old In The Halls of Valhalla I finally take my place With my sword and my shield I enter Odin's realm I'm an immortal spirit now with a heart made of steel With the gods on high forever I will live and laugh at the Fears of man

[@markcoutts7750]

☮️🇨🇦🫂✌🏼 Thank you I could not understand the opera. 😅

[@dianewright5575]

Good stuff!!!!!! Thank You for writing it out!!!!

[@kashigata]

Wonderful, thank you!!

[@kashigata]

I don’t know much about opera, but these ladies seem to have incredible voices. It’s the first time I’ve heard this in whole and I loved it.

[@MarkRogers-j6f]

Was introduced to this masterpeace when barley twenty years old. My favorite of all that I was exposed or introduced to.

[@merrigalebeddoes1921]

I was in a gifted program in elementary school. Our third grade curriculum consisted, in large part, of Norse mythology and Wagner’s ring cycle. Ride of the Valkyrie was my favorite part. It’s also kill the wabbit, the smell of napalm in the morning, and a Maxell commercial. This performance is definitely fantastic!!!

[@randydewees7338]

Right! the dude sitting in that low chair facing the speakers, as the music starts his drink starts to slide back on the chair arm and his hair is blowing in the wind. I've not seen or thought of that commercial in 30 years - thanks!

[@LeftysLefty]

Been around the block a bit, have you? Lol

[@virginiapalmer5669]

I love how the different Valkyries a.k.a. singers are coming in singing their part 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thank goodness for the Internet. I never seen anything like this before. Good job, ladies and orchestra.🥰

[@bikebudha01]

There is just something special about watching humans manually make music.... There must be 60+ of them, all in sync... Fantastic...

[@stevendimmock4791]

Love it so much!! The great thing about Wagner was that He got the music so good and the said 'what we need is a bunch of big shouty girls. And that is what He did. Was He wrong? God bless, those big shouty girls, they made great music even greater!!

[@martinalenz5029]

Outstanding. Richard Wagner was a genius, indeed. Love his work.❤

[@josepherhardt164]

Wagnerian opera is wonderful--if you can get the singers to SHUT UP so that we can listen to the music. Seriously. Opera sung in German is like nails on a chalkboard. 1:33 Yeah, I'm already done. Peace to my ears.

[@martinalenz5029]

@@josepherhardt164 😄🙋‍♀️

[@westlock]

Try en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Night_aria by Mozart. It is even better.@@josepherhardt164

[@thesmallerhalf1968]

He is an exemplar of the complexity of humans. A brilliant composer, albeit that he polarises his audience, an inveterate debtor and a serial philanderer, not to mention an anti-semite.

[@charis6311]

@@josepherhardt164 So hiaho is German to you? it would have been totally different if they sung this in English or Spanish or Arabic?

[@johnedreslin]

So great to see the individual solo work which gets lost on recordings. I really liked the staggered entrances onto the stage. Really gets to the heart of the action.

[@ANTONIOBANDERAS-l8w]

Truly Heavenly harmonisation is simply immortal and impeccable

[@anthonym.austin5346]

This is one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had, watching this performance

[@piratecove3323]

Old classics never die, they mature with age. Bellissimo. Grazie.

[@johnvalencia7488]

I never get tired of listening to this piece.

[@Рысь-б8р]

Ich habe Angst...

[@dirtfarmer7472]

It’s to be played while I’m lying in state before my funeral, with several others not correct for a funeral.

[@mikejaggs6722]

Outstanding! Brought tears to my eyes! Magnificent performance of Wagners genius.

[@KCapp]

Yes, you cannot perform this song without a commitment to the drama and theater it entails. Well done!

[@OldGrayCzechWolf]

Just not the same without helmets and steel breastplates..... I love this piece along with the rest of the ring cycle. BTW, I don"t see Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits, I see Huey gunships and Robert DuVall assaulting a Vietnamese village. When I hear the fire magic music where Wotan summons Logi, I see massive space battleships with tiny auxillary craft flying to and fro.

[@AlCiego1959]

"How you feeling, Jimmy?" "Like a mean Mother Fu&ker, Sir!"

[@Svensk7119]

From where cometh the spaceship and its auxiliaries? That one I don't get.

[@Svensk7119]

Oh, and the amount of steel need for those bosoms would have been prohibitive😂.

[@OldGrayCzechWolf]

@@Svensk7119 Its from a different part of the opera, comes much later, the fire magic music, where Wotan summons up Logi to surround Brunhilde with a circle of fire. The deep overpowering music is the battleship and the light twinkling music are the attending fighters and auxiliary craft.

[@williamlavelle7786]

I believe one of the Starwar movies.@@Svensk7119

[@bigbob1699]

When my father bought his first stereo in the 50s , this was on it. Loved it then , love it more now.

[@basilpunton5702]

Brilliant. The acting of the singers makes this special. The looking up effect.

[@Edgardelan]

Outstanding Richard, outstanding! I’ll get you a case of beer for that!

[@antoonfeyaerts6089]

In the here after he must be the head of entertainment in the hall of fallen warriors preparing theirselves for the last battle ... so everything can start overnew. Wink.

[@J.D.Vision]

Wearing valkyrie armor should be mandated for this.

[@bravevoice2771]

Please appreciate that these women are dominating a full symphony orchestra and filling an opera house without microphones. What power.

[@SilvioTischer]

Toll! was für Stimmen! Was für Frauen!

[@andreasmaier6260]

Was für ein tolles Kulturgut, danke an so viel Kunst.

[@adamsouthwell1790]

Good performance. The music certainly conjures up ladies you don't want to mess about with.

[@GregFennell-sd4gq]

For some reason, I keep seeing Bell UH-1 choppers firing rockets into a Vietnamese village, American soldiers surfing with mortars exploding around them & Robert DuValle saying, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".

[@dixiecyrus8136]

Ditto 😂

[@DJ-mz7td]

It's not just some reason. You can also see a stationwagon fall from the sky. 😂

[@Phil-oj5nr]

Thanks, Miss Gregory for teaching musical appreciation all those years ago. Another “goosebumps” performance!

[@gunnarbuster2610]

Vielen Dank für diese virtuose Interpretation. Schade, dass in unserer sogenannten modernen Zeit so eine bezaubernde Musikkultur nur noch sehr selten zu sehen und zu hören ist.

[@SteveWood-m9q]

The only Opera of ever liked

[@thesilversurfer7136]

How exquisite: the orchestra was perfect, their playing gave me chills. The singers were so powerful and the depth of their range and voices is unmatched.

[@markopolo5695]

Those women's voices

[@criticalmass181]

Beautiful. Captivating. I don't think i've ever heard such a heartfelt performance of this piece.

[@rallypoint1]

Fantastic!!!! Those powerful voices!!! 💫💫

[@j.lietka9406]

The genius of Wagner! This must be incredible to see in person! ❤

[@LuisAlbertoAragonvega]

Bird voices!! Amazing. Make me cry.

[@doberski6855]

Beautiful production and performance by all involved! Have to be honest, every time I hear that opening suite of music, I immediately see helicopters coming in low out of the rising sun in head.

[@pascaledowling6309]

I'm glad It's not just me 😂

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

To be played at volume 11! By law. 😂

[@ulissedazante5748]

It's relatively rare to get the true sung version. Plenty of orchestral renditions, but they lack the "fury".

[@indigo8848]

Every so often its wonderful to see what good humans are capable of.

[@jimryon1002]

This is so cool. Congrats for a fine performance.

[@kaspar_1982]

when the women began, i lost it...Magnificent!

[@arklinmike]

What a wuss I am - this brings tears to my eyes. ❤

[@georgevavoulis4758]

Such beautiful music and the synchronization of everyone is amazing .

[@emalaret6]

I am in the stars, you all are great. Thank you.

[@mercenarymike1397]

Who got their first taste of classical music from Bugs Bunny.. "Kill the Wabbit. kill the Wabbit"..??? LMAO

[@erichammond7140]

I did many years ago when I was a kid😂

[@rameyzamora1018]

Lively & uplifting performances - uniquely theatrical & unconventional. What a pleasure!

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Beautiful voices, outfits, colours, atmosphere, music, orchestra, pleasure to be part of this great team. ☕️🎵🇷🇸🇦🇺👌🙏💯❤️ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="463">7:43</a>

[@mariadobomsucessonasciment5590]

Is beautiful !

[@JonCain-xw4rw]

GRACIAS ALEMANIA 🇩🇪 POR DARNOS TANTO Y TANTO POR BIEN DEL MUNDO

[@NikolaosSkordilis]

Ι am immigrating to Bergen in May. I love opera and classical music, so I hope I'll be able to see you up close one day. Great rendition!

[@Bob.W.]

The opening was also a great Northern States Power commercial from the 70s. A guy reading the paper starts hearing the refrain. All of a sudden a helmeted woman dressed like a Viking (Brunnhilde) opens the front door carrying a spear with a piece of paper on the end, singing "Welcome to winter, in Minnesota, here is your fuel bill, haha haha."

[@TheJakecakes]

In Billington's great book Fire in the Minds of Men, The Revolutionary Faith, he describes how opera was utilized in the great revolutions of the 1840s. People would leave the theater entranced and with Revolutionary fervor!

[@josenighthawk]

Darn! ... Feel like jumping on my Huey! ... Marvelous! Thank you for posting!

[@doberski6855]

So glad I am not the only one who went there in the comments! It really was the best part of a very grim movie and obviously very memorable!

[@EducatedSkeptic]

@@doberski6855 .......... The fundamental music itself is pretty danged incredible! Remember that it was written almost a century before "movies" were even imagined! 😉

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

True, but it also shows how a powerful visual coupled with extraordinary music can stay in the psyche!

[@josenighthawk]

@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars 'Charlie DON'T SURF!!'

[@joeylawn36111]

Don't forget to sit on your helmet when you ride.... 😉🙃

[@lizm.1073]

This is good to wake up and have a cup of coffee! Love it!

[@EatPezzzz]

This piece is actually called The Ride of the Valkyries. The helicopters flying scene in Apocalypse Now was so iconic that it is now confused with flight, hence the common mistake of calling it The Flight of the Valkyries.

[@NavyAviationVeteranRVer]

Actually, ride of the valerie was a poor English translation of the GERMAN flight of the valeries.

[@notaboot6686]

Valkyries do not ride, as they posses wings !

[@AmatureAstronomer]

Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren, Translate it yourself.

[@trevorbailey1486]

@@notaboot6686 Is that so? Well, Brunhilde's horse, Grane, will be relieved to hear that. Otherwise, he was immolated together with his owner at the music-drama's conclusion.

[@ghamoz]

Il titolo originale di Wagner è "Walkürenritt" che tradotto significa "cavalcata delle walkirie" (google traslator) posso assicurarti che jel 1963, quando l'ho sentito per la prima volta (e mi ha fatto scegliere di studiare musica) quello era il titolo corrente e di "apocalipse now" non c'era nemmeno l'idea .

[@cvriosvlvs]

А я все гадал, как же выглядят валькирии... Так аппетитно! Да еще и поют! Похитили мой покой...

[@mtdebemigrant1435]

Love this. I was fortunate enough to see a live performance of The Ring in Seattle, WA in 2009, I believe. It was wonderful.

[@olivia-x6y]

I flew helicopters in South Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry 1970-1971. And listening to this has me pumped up at age 75.

[@malcolmpowell9164]

Thank You for Your service Sir. Live long and prosper

[@jean-pierrechoquet2909]

Me too, 76 !

[@glynluff2595]

Saw you on news clips in U K. You were all very brave whatever celluloid warriors might say!

[@marcheyman6932]

May the Lord bless you ! You are my hero, and all those who serve!

[@markstarmer3677]

Respect to you sir. From a youngster (62) from England.🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@Peter-ni2ql]

🐉🪽🦁🐺🐺🐺🐘🐘📡🔊🛰️🐳🐳🐋🐋🐬🐬🐙🐙🦑🦑this is about to be beyond epic...

[@murilolucarello4810]

Powerfull voices

[@JohnRSmith-xv2kq]

pretty tepid applause for such a magnificent performance of very difficult music

[@RCorvinus]

It does not look like they had a capacity crowd as it were.

[@rawtothecore61]

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy the song i max out my speakers and get chicken skin every time I play it

[@rolandalfonso6954]

Glorious. Everybody singers and musicians having fun and making a living! This is what it is all about. Thank you.

[@generizzolo2755]

I had the pleasure of seeing Bugs Bunny at The Symphony at Lincoln Center a few years back, which was a live Looney Tunes screening of classic cartoons accompanied by the New York Philarmonic playing the score - and this was the opening number! Remember the old Maxwell TV ad with the guy being blown away by the speaker? This piece being performed live was exactly like that!

[@guydaley]

Holy Crap! I've never been graced by the entire rendition before. Mostly just what Apocalyse Now had to offer. But with the addition of all of those pro opera singers - WOW This was a musical spectacle!

[@tadbear666]

OMG! What pipes!!

[@tiffsaver]

I think the best use of this classic was when Coppola used it in the helicopter attack sequence in "Apocalypse Now." Everytime I hear it, I play the entire scene in my head.

[@giusepperando9465]

...ogni volta che ascolto questa interpretazione provo sempre una grande emozione...grande orchestra e grandi soprano...

[@jamesraymond1158]

Excellent. Wagner is amazing.

[@ReadyKiloWhat]

Wagner ❤❤❤❤ is cooool

[@uiaramiranda7284]

BELÍSSIMO @Orquestra Sinfônica e Ópera de Trondheim😘😘😘

[@Анастасия-в1к1й]

Благо Дарю ВАС за эфир. Одно слово ВЕЧНО живёт и будет жить . Исполнение превосходное. БРАВО ❤

[@Koboille]

extraordinaire.... quelle performance!... bravo et bonjour Trondheim... ville qui reste dans mon coeur

[@Crvxly]

AHHH ITS PURE PERFECTION 😭😭😭

[@miguelvzap]

This made me fall in love with this piece all over again!

[@psychokarloff]

Wow! Superb orchestra and the singers staging so dramatic!

[@hs7921]

For me, it has been important to actually see this work performed. And this was the first time. I’ve only ever heard it before. Actually seeing the individual performers as a whole new dimension and a much higher level of appreciation of the complexity of this work. And how spectacular it is as well.

[@jamesloney1647]

I have seen the Ring several times. In performance, this scene always comes off as a bit of a letdown..The stage is simply too large, the operatic cosmos too large to comfortably encompass the Valkyries (who come off, on stage, like little shrieking worms). In Concertante, however, every Valkyrie here shines and struts her stuff. This is how Wagner imagned it (constrained as he was by the limits of the stage): simply utterly insane magnificent celestial MUSIC. One is speechless at its asoutnding creativity, its newness and freshness and radicality even today almost 150 years after Wagner wrote it. BLAZING AMAZING INCREDIBLE thank you to all the performers and orchrestra

[@peggygilmour8905]

I could not figure out which instruments produced the sounds.

[@h.m.sdasilveira5710]

@@peggygilmour8905 Very sad indeed.

[@MsAnaBolt]

My father used to play this music on vinyl records when we lived in Nicaragua. We learned about music early on because he wanted us to learn about different styles of music and cultures. Truly value what he did and till this day I have those amazing memories! This was an amazing and unique.

[@hypercomms2001]

"WE USE WAGNER. IT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF THE SLOPES. MY BOYS LOVE IT!"

[@mickjenner6697]

That and the smell of napalm.

[@Nigelg68]

A beautiful piece the sound and laddies is amazing thank you

[@patriciocristobalgallardoz341]

Qué volumen de voces Dios mío!!!! Magníficas!!!! ❤❤❤!

[@celsoguajardovillarreal]

Excelente !!! Saludos desde Apodaca Nuevo Leon Mexico.

[@philalbion867]

We'll come in low out of the rising sun and about a mile out we'll put on the music......

[@feralbluee]

What a voice!!!! OMG!!! She’s with the violins. 🎻 Bravissima!!!!

[@786itube]

Such an iconic piece - least of all for that ominous scene from an equally iconic movie - Apocalypse Now

[@retta1960]

Wow! BRAVO! Beautifully done, such instrumental talent and voices! :)

[@bob_._.]

I like how the performers sitting in front of the slide trombones have head protection built into their chairs.

[@MrReddevil2420]

Would've been better if they had been wearing horned George helmets

[@gregruland1934]

outstanding brilliant inspiring stellar thank you

[@ParkourAnacondaJohnson]

My taxi driver was listening to this song today on my commute home.

[@AleAleAlejandro]

Impresionante, bravo, BRAVISSIMO ❤

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Wow. Stunning

[@redraven4177]

Wonderful performance!

[@chiimumango3979]

RUN CHARLIE!

[@yoelfischel6327]

When I lived in San Francisco Public TV had Der Ring des Nibelungen on over 4 nights.

[@Igor_Anatolevich_68]

Изумительно! Спасибо! Получил истинное наслаждение!

[@RozáliaJuhász]

Bravo!Bravo!Bravo!👏👏👏👏👏👏