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2023

December

Sun
03 Dec 2023

Sun
10 Dec 2023

Sun
17 Dec 2023
Venue

Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre
corner Grey and Melbourne Streets, South Bank, Brisbane

Language

Sung in German with English surtitles.

Running time

Approximately 5 hours & 45 minutes, including two intervals of 75 minutes, and 40 minutes.

New Production

The second opera in the Ring Cycle holds special appeal for audiences with its dramatic power and remarkable music, including the famous ‘Ride of the Valkyries’.

After Das Rheingold’s rarefied realm of gods, monsters and nature spirits, in Die Walküre Wagner plunges headlong into the highly emotional world of humanity.

Love animates the actions of all the leading characters: Wotan, who wants to protect his children but is forced to forsake them; his twin offspring Siegmund and Sieglinde who fall passionately in love; and his warrior daughter Brünnhilde, who defies Wotan by trying to protect the twins.

He punishes her by stripping her of her immortality and putting her to sleep surrounded by a wall of flames that only the greatest hero can brave.

Cast & Creative

Conductor
Director & Production Designer
Associate Set Designer
Digital Content Designer
Digital Content Designer Associates
Sebastian Grebing And Milena Mayer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Associate Lighting Designer
Choreographer
Assistant Director
Miranda Summers
Wotan
Fricka
Siegmund
Sieglinde
Anna-Louise Cole (Cycles 1 and 2)
Olivia Cranwell (Cycle 3)
Hunding
Brünnhilde
Lise Lindstrom (Cycles 1 and 2)
Anna-Louise Cole (Cycle 3)
Gerhilde
Ortlinde
Waltraute
Schwertleite
Helmwige
Siegrune
Grimgerde
Rossweisse

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Queensland Chorus
Dancenorth Dancers

The Story

The second opera in the Ring Cycle holds special appeal for audiences with its dramatic power and remarkable music, including the famous ‘Ride of the Valkyries’. In Die Walküre Wagner plunges headlong into the highly emotional world of humanity.

Not afraid of spoilers? Read the whole synopsis.
Strategic Partners
Tourism Queensland

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Wagner Syndicate

Accor logo

Henkell Brothers

University Partner

Griffith University logo

Presenting Partner

QPAC

Orchestra Partner

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Presenting Government Partner

NFACR

Patron-in-Chief

Opera Australia Government Partner

Australia Council for the Arts