National Theatre (Munich)
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The National Theatre on Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich, Germany, is a historic opera house, home of the Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra and the Bavarian State Ballet.
National Theatre in Munich (2022)
Königsbau of the Munich Residenz (left) and National Theatre (right), photographed by Joseph Albert (1860)
National Theatre, around 1900
Aerial view (looking southwest) showing location of National Theatre (green roof) in relation to Max-Joseph-Platz (circle) and Residenz (right), 2007
Die Walküre
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Die Walküre, WWV 86B, is the second of 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 26
National Theatre (Munich)
…including many by German composers. These included Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1865), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868), Das Rheingold (1869) and Die Walküre (1870), after which Wagner chose to build the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and staged his works there. During the latter part of the 19th century, it was…
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"