RICHARD WAGNER

 

Die Walküre

 

Seiffert, Salminen, Uusitalo, Schnitzer, Wilson, Larsson

 

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Zubin Mehta

 

Staged by La Fura dels Baus

 

From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2008

 

Bonus: Making of Walküre (27 mins)

 

Features world-class Wagner singers such as Peter Seiffert, Petra-Maria Schnitzer, Matti Salminen and promising young talents like Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods."

 

La Fura del Baus use 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil".

 

NTSC

2 DVD 9

Sound: 5.1

Running Time: 272 minutes (245’ Opera + 27’ Bonus)

Subtitles: German, French, English, Spanish

Booklet: German, French, English

 

C Major 2DVDs 700708