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Die Walküre
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music drama by Richard Wagner, part of Der Ring des Nibelungen
Key facts
- Translation
- The Valkyrie
- Librettist
- Richard Wagner
- Language
- German
- Based on
- Nordic and German legends
- Premiere
- 26 June 1870 ( 1870-06-26 ) , Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich
via Wikipedia infobox
~35 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Die Walküre ( German pronunciation: [diː valˈkyːʁə]; The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.
As the Ring cycle was conceived by Wagner in reverse order of performance, Die Walküre was the third of the four texts to be written, although Wagner composed the music in performance sequence. The text was completed by July 1852, and the music by March 1856.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Die Walküre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.