DVD + Blu-Ray:
Die Walküre

The Staatsoper Berlin presents another breathtaking chapter of its Wagner's Ring with Thielemann's conduction and Tcherniakov's stage direction.

Raising the curtain on a work of superlatives: the Staatsoper Unter den Linden represents the ultimate challenge for any opera house, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Christian Thielemann conducts the Ring tetralogy, and Dmitri Tcherniakov, highly praised for his psychologically sophisticated productions, led the playful all-star ensemble coherently through the panorama of characters, situations and events that unfolded like a universe and consistently interpreted the sheer vastness and the manifold twists and turns of the Ring cosmos. With the Walküre score, composed in the mid-1850s, Wagner reached new heights with his music, giving the orchestra remarkable communicative powers, layers of meaning were thus developed and incorporated into the work.

“Enchanting magic of sound” (Die Zeit)

“Spectacular and breath-takingly precise, that’s how Thielemann illuminates the Wagner score.” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

“Velvety sound of unmatched beauty” (The Guardian)

Genre Opera
Composer Richard Wagner
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Orchestra / Band Staatskapelle Berlin
Stage Director Dmitri Tcherniakov
Soloist Anja Kampe, Michael Volle, Robert Watson, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Claudia Mahnke, Mika Kares
Recording location Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Recording date October 2022
Duration 235 mins
Production Company A production of Bel Air Media, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, ZDF and Unitel in cooperation with Arte and rbb, with the participation of CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée)