Die Walküre
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Die Walküre, WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on
Josef Hoffman's stage design for Act I, Bayreuth 1876
Brünnhilde on the mountainside; title page from the 1899 Schott's vocal score
Brünnhilde pleads with her sisters to rescue Sieglinde: (Arthur Rackham, 1910)
Brünnhilde in the Eddas – "superhuman strength"
Ride of the Valkyries
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The Ride of the Valkyries is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute the operatic cycle De
Arthur Rackham's illustration to The Ride of the Valkyries
Ride of the Valkyries, Cesare Viazzi