Valentin Schwarz’s Walküre presents the work as a modern family drama with multi-layered characters and deliberately dispenses with traditional mythology and props.
Cast 2025
Conductor: Simone Young
Director: Valentin Schwarz
Stage design: Andrea Cozzi
Costumes: Andy Besuch
Dramaturgy: Konrad Kuhn
Lighting: Reinhard Traub, Nicol Hungsberg
Siegmund: Michael Spyres
Hunding: Vitalij Kowaljow
Wotan: Tomasz Konieczny
Sieglinde: Jennifer Holloway
Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster
Fricka: Christa Mayer
Gerhilde: Catharine Woodward
Ortlinde: Brit-Tone Müllertz
Waltraute: Margaret Plummer
Schwertleite: Christa Mayer
Helmwige: Dorothea Herbert
Siegrune: Alexandra Ionis
Grimgerde: Marie Henriette Reinhold
Rossweisse: Noa Beinart
Events
Scenes from the premiere performances of Valentin Schwarz‘s “Das Rheingold”, “Die Walküre”, “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” in 2022.
The focus is on the family – and its gradual disintegration. “Die Walküre” leads us through a web of responsibility, guilt and farewell.