Walkure

[@stefanufer608]

Waltraud Meier is one of the best artists, not just one of the best singers, I have ever heard - her Ortrud at Covent Garden 2003 was out of this world

[@annelieseanderle354]

Performance in January 2016 at Vienna Opera. Wotan sung by Polish baritone Tomasz Konieczny. All information about performers in last 3 minutes of video.

[@hangpham6168]

Eine absolut großartige Aufführung. Mit Abstand eine der besten die ich je gesehen habe

[@sandroperez3884]

Beautiful. Thanx for posting I agree she's the best ever wonderful career...I'm saying miss Mayer obviously I still gotta hear act 2. Thanx again

[@WalterSAllen]

Meier! Come on....

[@thorsten1955]

The orchestra is absolutely breathtaking.

[@박재영-g6w]

in my opinion, best Wotan ever.

[@paulmackay6529]

You just can't have a Brünnhilde who looks 20+ years older than Wotan. Especially for the farewell, it simply doesn't work.

[@ManuMex]

Paul Mackay / it works when ur interested in having a brunnhilde that sounds like it should.

[@ManuMex]

About having a young brunnhild ,...u cannot have all,...and the music and type of voice comes first.

[@alexeyv.sokolov78]

Wotan ate Freia's apples, she did not....

[@susannevollmer2347]

The same with her costumes and the other valkuries. Free of sense - like the director🙃The acting between Brünnhild and Wotan is again and again like mother ist talking to the noughty wildest youngster.

[@colinmaclean7538]

We went to see the same production on the 8th of May. Was great to experience the production on this video first before we went. Many thanks.

[@wienhorn]

2.Horn Solo: 1:41:51

[@gerardoidie]

¡Qué hermoso de verdad! Pocas puestas me mantienen cautivo de ésta ópera. Gracias de verdad.

[@dabedwards]

Opinions are clearly divided on this. Personally, I love the sound of the orchestra, and that it is so prominent, perhaps on account of being close-miked. The sound here seems to have tremendous "presence" and immediacy, and tiny details of scoring stand out clearly. Thank you for the upload. PS The Magic Fire projection was the best I've seen. Real flames always have to be a bit modest for safety reasons, and projections can be rather feeble, perhaps because they try to be naturalistic. This was a beautifully designed series of expressionist images which really caught the spirit of Fire, without being too literal.

[@yuenfung8276]

是的！用真火就要請消防隊在後門等着 的！（不是開玩笑）

[@ManuMex]

Love everything here,the orchestra sound, all singers and director . But I was kind of aroused by these Walsung-couple!! 😳

[@susannevollmer2347]

Allvater finde ich auch richtig süß! Eine spaßige Inszenierung. After all, the scene Brünnhilde appears before Siegmund there is a dignity.

[@siegfriedenea]

2:58:39 … this woman is pure music! 3:09:55 "the best "Valkyries wail" I've ever heard!

[@srothbardt]

Great sound and playing and singing.

[@draganvidic2039]

Linda Watson's voice is a little all over the place sometimes but anyhow still going strong after all years and Waltraud Meier is one of the best Sieglindes ever and so heartfelt sung. Prefer her fast vibrato to so many wobbly voices around.

[@kirstendonovan4092]

2:42:37 So awesome!! Pop culture osmosis according to TV Tropes.

[@benschroth7717]

Beautiful production.

[@benschroth7717]

Wotan's 3rd Act spear work was ridiculous. And Bruenhilde looked like Wotan's granny.

[@marquefan1]

Close your eyes and enjoy the sound,

[@susannevollmer2347]

Where is the mask?

[@МихайлоЛьвович-ш6у]

Лінда Ватсон найкраща Брунгільда з тих, що я чув і бачив, а бачив доволі. Також Вотан Конєчний найкращий. А про Віденців і казати нічого, лише Brava!!!

[@JerryAttric42]

would someone please tell me WHAT production this is and WHEN it took place? the only clue seems to be WALKURE in the title.

[@katilynsanderssoprano]

I believe it's Die Walküre - Wiener Staatsoper (2016) - Fischer Ventris Meier Anger Watson Konieczny Schuster

[@jeffwatkins352]

While the vast majority judge these productions solely by their vocals, my focus is on staging. Of the dozen or more productions I've seen, both on stage and video, this one's finale comes closest to approximating what Wagner wanted. Well...excepting the horses. Why the heck are THEY still there? Even so, the synchronization between sight and sound leaves the others behind. My compliments to all involved. Also, it's nice to see a hunky Wotan with a youthful voice.

[@susannevollmer2347]

The valkurie scene .."what Wagner wanted.."? Not only the horses are wrong, also the walls around and have you noticed the make-up of the poor girls - funny valkuries - and absolutely strange behavior.

[@jeffwatkins352]

@@susannevollmer2347 Notice I said "comes closest to approximating.... the synchronization between sight and sound." As for the rest, what modern production ever returns to the quasi-mythic look Wagner must have wanted?

[@austrianrailandsky3841]

2:42:36 Walkürenritt (3. Aufzug)

[@martinchuzzlewit2452]

There are so many breathtaking performances of Die Walküre on KZbin, but this is not one of them.

[@operatically]

which ones can you recommend? :)

[@martinchuzzlewit2452]

Go to Amazon and buy used for $6.64 Birgit Nilsson & Jon Vickers in Erich Leinsdorf's amazing recording of Die Walkure. Unbelievable is really the word. George London is a fantastic Wotan (many clips of him in this recording on KZbin). The who performance spectacular. Please get it and let me know what you think!

[@sandroperez3884]

@@operatically that's all dinosaur stuff. Great of course London and wiendgassen Nielsen but modern singing is something else ...if you dont mind my saying of course...

[@airatenor]

Can anyone tell me who this wonderfully sung Siegmund is?

[@NcNavarre]

Christopher Ventris

[@donreed2609]

He's a great Siegmund!

[@sandroperez3884]

OMG I didn't know linda watson was coming......she still around? Mmmmm😱😱😱

[@marquefan1]

so? Vienna is a repertory theatre.

[@uilsy5917]

3:13:40 сцена вотана и брунгильды, вступление, л-м оправдания брунгильды

[@aliciasarramida]

very interesting

[@paolograndinetti7609]

Come si può pubblicare un video senza dare nessuna informazione?

[@sisifus100]

Thank you so much.

[@vla2baradanikto]

Georg Solti and The Vienna Philharmonic. Recorded 1958-1965. The greatest Ring Ever.

[@hrh2842]

Certainly one of them.

[@remomazzetti8757]

That's a matter of opinion and personal taste. Solti's ring cycle was my first, but I gave it away after I discovered cycles by far greater conductors: Furtwangler, Knappertsbusch , Krauss, and Bohm to name some of the best.

[@marquefan1]

we know - studio recordings

[@TonythekillaB]

Holy shit I was there that evening

[@marquefan1]

I got to see it with Botha. But I think Anger may be the best Hunding since Frick.

[@nikolaicoco333]

Danke schön!!! Bamberg

[@hrh2842]

I thought people only stood on tables when they were drunk and wanted to show off their dancing. -:)

[@marquefan1]

Today's productions sometimes give you a lot worse. One day a director will remember again that this action took place about 650 A.D.

[@carlosgarcia33333]

this Wotan and the entire orchestra should sent to Vahalla........forever!

[@susannevollmer2347]

This orchester and the conducter? Why? Silly me, cannot read a partitur...

[@wotan10950]

I watched the entire performance, and it’s a good one, esp Ventris and Meier. But there are so many better Walkure DVDs out there: 1. Levine/Behrens/Morris/Norman/Ludwig 2. Boulez/Jones/McIntyre/Altmeyer/Hofmann 3. Barenboim/Evans/Tomlinson/Secunde/Elming 4. Levine/Voigt/Terfel/Westbroek/Kaufmann 5. Pappano/Gasteen/Terfel/Meier/Domingo/Plowright

[@sandroperez3884]

With all due respect agree about boulez but how can you even compare this to j Levine and Jimmie Morris please...no no no 😃😃

[@sandroperez3884]

Evans voigt and linda watson are kind of the worst walkure ever just ugly voices

[@sandroperez3884]

Domingo is good with a maier but in sinopoli's version not pappano which is ok but not great.

[@haraldlacina786]

... they never use real fire on stage, only so called "cold" fire, which does not harm anybody, otherwise people in action films could never walk through fire because the heat is around 600° celsius!!!

[@rodom555]

¿esta es la mejor Brunilda que puede ofrecer Viena?muy mediocre

[@marquefan1]

See Hernandez above. Even Nilsson was no spring 'gallina'

[@bronxbearbud272]

Am I the only one who heartily applauds when Wotan doubles over in grief? The bum got exactly what he deserved, even if poor Siegmund was part of the price that had to be paid. I know, we're supposed to feel tremendous sorrow and pity for the guy. but he himself was the cause of the evil in the world that caused his son's death and so much horrific misery to others. And how is this for chutzpah -- mmediately afterwards, by way of expressing gratitude to Hunding for doing exactly as he was told to do, Wotan throws a hissy fit and kills him. And please, spare me -- because I can already hear the clucking of you slaves as you bend knee to Dickie Dumbkopf (Cosima's nickname for Wagner, at least during certain times of the month) -- oy, there they go ,-- ,"But that's what Wagner wanted... cackle cackle cackle --Wagner wanted! -- cackle cackle oy... (Angrily muttering) The heck with what Wagner wanted, I got some of what he needs... (Takes a deep cleansing breath and returns to the world of memories) And yes, in response to my applause I always get a couple of nasty looks as the intermission lights come up, but at least they don't escort me out of the house, as they did late into an especially tedious performance of Tristan and Isolde. Tristan was in a word, awful and so yes midway in act three I couldn't contain myself anymore and found myself screaming "JUST DIE ALREADY!" Hey, if Jon Vickers could have the infantile temerity to attack some sick audience member who was coughing too much to his taste, barking out something like "shut up with your goddamn coughing already!" then we should be free to tell Tristan to die. Fair is fair, if they can scream at us, we can scream at them. And no,, they refused to refund part of my ticket price. Which is why, at the end of the next performance I attended, somebody found a toilet full of hardening cement in that Dress Circle bathroom.. (sighs) Going to the opera used to be fun. (Covers ears to block out the pain, glares down add June Anderson, reaches under seat for a bag of rotten tomatoes "You call THAT an E flat?" Please excuse me, I. hear that some vines in the Hsnging Gadens have been stripped bare, and I think Semiramide could use a couple of tomatoes

[@declamatory]

Oi vey caramba! So, that asylum has Wi-Fi, eh?

[@bronxbearbud272]

@@declamatory yes, but parsifal is using it at the moment. He's crazy too, believing as I do that while suffering can provide redemption, not all suffering is redemptive. But then some said the Savior was crazy for sacrificing himself and laughed to see his suffering.

[@declamatory]

@@bronxbearbud272 - You're a student of the Talmud, aren't you?

[@bronxbearbud272]

@@declamatory No, but I am quite well acquainted with all manner of Jewry. Being a papist sodomite, my people were repulsed by the Protestant heretics that goose-stepped any and all of us into a deathcamp. Or as an old borscht belt punchline put it, I'm from the Bronx, we're all Jrws

[@declamatory]

@@bronxbearbud272 - A "papist sodomite" would be amenable to Sanhedrin 54b, Sanhedrin 55b, and Kethuboth 11b, no doubt. The current "Pope" is, undoubtedly, a "Jew" and might even be Jonathan Pryce.

[@lakkfatt2321]

52:16

[@mogmason6920]

Production’s a bit bland, might as well be semi-staged.

[@natashas3085]

2:33:42

[@AndrewGriffiths]

2:27:57 - how underwhelming. Wagner sounds much more anxious about this moment than Linda Watson appeared to be.

[@Bach305]

THE VERY BEST WALKURE WAS THE METS TELEVISION AIRING WITH NORMAN ANDLAKES IN FACT IT MIGHT BE THE VERY BEST RING CYCLE EVER. IT STAYED WITH WAGNERS CONCEPT. WHEN THEY DO THESE RING PRODUCTIONS THEY ALL THINK THEY BETTER THAN WAGNER.

[@LendallPitts]

I prefer the Meier/Domingo La Scala production from the nineties conducted by Riccardo Muti. You can say "That shouldn't work," but it does.

[@hrh2842]

Why are you shouting?

[@susannevollmer2347]

And the Holy Grale goes tooo....MET!

[@sandroperez3884]

No way jose had to stop watching act 2 is unbearable danger for your eardrums

[@Dylonely_9274]

Wagner

[@jgesselberty]

If only some enlightened person would actually take Wagner's concepts, and actually read his copious notes, as to what he wanted to see on the stage; and then use modern stagecraft and technology to make it happen; we might have a Ring for the Ages. Instead, we get drivel and cartoonish concepts that make us close our eyes and listen while we picture the real Wagner in our minds.

[@remomazzetti8757]

Absolutely true and very sad. Fortunately there are some excellent conductors and singers that still provide a meaningful experience of these great masterpieces. And as stupid as this production is, there are worse. I read about a director who had Mime masturbate at some point in SIEGFRIED! How imaginative... Poor Wagner!

[@163fank]

Rheingold, Götterdämmerung from National China theater That's what you're talking about ;)

[@163fank]

Nearby, at least..

[@susannevollmer2347]

Yes the nice cheap kitchen furnitures in Hundings cottage, for example.🤨

[@susannevollmer2347]

@@163fank I saw that and remember disturbing only the blonde hair all over the stage. Looks not good but I bet they mean it must?! (No, didn´`t!) Stage and costumes conservativ. Orchester and artists good. And that was realy a great cultural distance. I want to comment this becouse I feel your comment unfair..

[@johannschneider6372]

Fischer ist not in control of the orchestra ... much too loud!

[@hrh2842]

Adjust your hearing aid! I can hear the singers just fine.

[@susannevollmer2347]

Bayreuth sound is not possible there. But the next ring mit Adam Fischer is brilliant in sound and nearly perfect understandable! And that is rare, realy!

[@alejandraponce5629]

what horrible voices :c