Four hours of gods beefing while your soul levitates — Thielemann's Walküre is *that* serious.
Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Having paid the giants for building Valhalla with the ring stolen from Alberich, Wotan is determined to get it back. For if he fell into Alberich's hands again, the fate of the gods would be sealed. But since he himself, as the father of the gods, is not allowed to break contracts, his children Siegmund and Sieglinde are to take care of that...
Acting
Volle's Wotan — broken god, magnificent voice, daddy issues for the ages
Direction
Tcherniakov strips the myth bare; no helmets, just raw human wreckage
Score
Thielemann's tempi will test your bladder and reward your patience
Director
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thielemann's Ring cycle at Unter den Linden was conceived as a unified statement across years; this Walküre sits at its bleeding heart.
The 'Ride of the Valkyries' you know from Apocalypse Now? Wagner wrote it as a recruitment jingle for dead heroes. Tcherniakov stages it as something far more haunted.
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