Oper

Richard Wagner

Die Walküre

Erster Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"

Monday 2. June 2025 2 Intermissions Main Stage
Area 1 255 €
Area 1

255 €

Area 2 209 €
Area 2

209 €

Area 3 180 €
Area 3

180 €

Area 4 122 €
Area 4

122 €

Area 5 94 €
Area 5

94 €

Area 6 69 €
Area 6

69 €

Area 7 45 €
Area 7

45 €

Area 8 30 €
Area 8

30 €

Area 9 18 €
Area 9

18 €

Standing room
Standing room

U27
Cycle »Ring 1«

Ticket information

Season 2024/2025

The Ring cycle is a musical marathon that takes the audience on a journey through mythology and human drama. This monumental opera saga, composed by Richard Wagner, combines breathtaking music, a captivating plot and impressive stage sets to create an unforgettable work of art.

28. May 2025: DAS RHEINGOLD
2. June 2025: DIE WALKÜRE
8. June 2025: SIEGRIED
15. June 2025: GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG


Cast at
2. June 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung

Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Bühne

Rolf Glittenberg

Kostüme

Marianne Glittenberg

Video

fettFilm (Momme Hinrichs und Torge Möller)

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Die Walküre

Cast at Sunday 22. June 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung

Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Bühne

Rolf Glittenberg

Kostüme

Marianne Glittenberg

Video

fettFilm (Momme Hinrichs und Torge Möller)
Area 1 255 €
Area 1

255 €

Area 2 209 €
Area 2

209 €

Area 3 180 €
Area 3

180 €

Area 4 122 €
Area 4

122 €

Area 5 94 €
Area 5

94 €

Area 6 69 €
Area 6

69 €

Area 7 45 €
Area 7

45 €

Area 8 30 €
Area 8

30 €

Area 9 18 €
Area 9

18 €

Standing room
Standing room

Included in: Cycle »Ring 2«
Cycle »Ring 2«

Season 2024/2025

The Ring cycle is a musical marathon that takes the audience on a journey through mythology and human drama. This monumental opera saga, composed by Richard Wagner, combines breathtaking music, a captivating plot and impressive stage sets to create an unforgettable work of art.

20. June 2025: DAS RHEINGOLD
22. June 2025: DIE WALKÜRE
25. June 2025: SIEGRIED
28. June 2025: GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

Short Summary

Wotan's children Siegmund and Sieglinde, who is unhappily married to Hunding, fall in love with each other.

With their incestuous, adulterous love, they violate the guest and marriage laws that Wotan's wife Fricka watches over. Siegmund is therefore supposed to die in a duel with Hunding, but Wotan's daughter Brünnhilde, a Valkyrie, defies her father's will and fights for Siegmund. Wotan is forced to kill Siegmund himself. Brünnhilde is punished by her father: he surrounds her with a wall of fire and sinks her into a deep sleep.

Die Walküre

Storyline

Siegmund, on the run from pursuers, arrives at Hunding's home, heavily exhausted.

His wife, Sieglinde, receives the hero and gives him a drink. When Hunding returns home, Siegmund recounts his life filled with misfortune. Hunding soon realizes that he has before him the man he has set out to kill. As he wants to preserve the right of hospitality, he postpones the duel with the unarmed Siegmund until the next morning.

Sieglinde manages to give her husband a sleeping draught. She also shows Siegmund a sword that has been thrust into the trunk of an ash tree by a mysterious stranger. Siegmund and Sieglinde, who have fallen in love with each other, realize that they are twin siblings and violate the law of hospitality with their incestuous, adulterous love.

The enigmatic stranger is the supreme god Wotan, guardian of all contracts.

He fathered the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde with a mortal woman. He now wants to send the Valkyrie Brünnhilde - his daughter from his union with the goddess Erda - to the battlefield to give Siegmund victory against Hunding. But Wotan's wife Fricka intervenes: the Lord of Contracts must not cover up unlawful acts such as adultery and incest. Wotan's hope that a hero might one day win back the Ring of the Nibelung is dashed.

He orders Brünnhilde to kill Siegmund, against his own wishes. She announces Siegmund's imminent death, but promises him entry into Valhalla. Siegmund refuses the latter when he learns that Sieglinde cannot accompany him. Brünnhilde, moved by his love, defies Wotan's orders and fights for Siegmund. Wotan is forced to kill Siegmund himself.

Brünnhilde rescues the pregnant Sieglinde.

For Sieglinde and Siegmund's son, who is to be called Siegfried, she leaves behind the sword that was broken in the battle against Hunding and Wotan. Then the furious Wotan reaches the renegade Valkyrie, strips her of her divinity and condemns her to become the wife of the first best man. In the end, he softens his sentence: the best. He surrounds her with a wall of fire that only the best can pass through.

Act 1 65 min
Intermission 25 min
Act 2 95 min
Intermission 25 min
Act 3 90 min

The production of the Ring tetralogy at the Vienna State Opera is by Sven-Eric Bechtolf, who has created a series of directorial works at the Haus am Ring. Wrapped in a timelessness, he tells the Ring storyas a model of the world, whereby the director does not want to set any concrete contemporary political or social interpretations: "If one refrains from beautiful blue-eyedness and refrains from moving smoothly from A to B, the Ring is worldly even without a "message". Despite or through abstraction. Rich in conflict, not stringent. Completely contradictory, but effective. In my eyes, it touches on the big questions and issues of our existence in a richly associative way, without having answered anything or held out the prospect of anything."

The ring is bizarre and immoderate, in the end more romantic than socially revolutionary. More akin to dreams than to daytime consciousness. And the dream does not have its meaning in the morning commentary. It has its nocturnal, subterranean use. (Sven-Eric Bechtolf)"

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