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
Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notabl
Production of the Oslo Opera in 2015
Ludwig II of Bavaria portrayed as Lohengrin below a moon with Wagner's face. Brochure in Der Floh, 1885.
Lohengrin (tenore), costume design for Lohengrin Act I, III (1888).
Johanna Jachmann-Wagner as Ortrud, ca. 1860