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Die Walküre

Majestic Wagner from the SSO
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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ABR Arts 18 November 2024

Die Walküre

Majestic Wagner from the SSO
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
by
ABR Arts 18 November 2024
Simone Young conducts Die Walküre (photograph by Jay Patel and courtesy of Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
Simone Young conducts Die Walküre (photograph by Jay Patel and courtesy of Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

What a happy time this is for Wagnerians, with a memorable Ring cycle last year from Melbourne Opera in Bendigo, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg to look forward to in February 2025 from that enterprising company. Opera Australia – unable to program Wagner in the miniscule Joan Sutherland Theatre after the embarrassments of its incomplete Ring of the early 1980s (notwithstanding some memorable casts, with the likes of Rita Hunter, Alberto Remedios, Lauris Elms, and Marilyn Richardson) – has presented the Ring thrice over the past decade, twice in Melbourne, once in Brisbane.

Anton Bruckner, dismally, may be a bridge too far for Australian audiences, but his hero, Richard Wagner, poses no such challenge. On Friday, the Concert Hall was excitedly and expectantly full for the first of two concert performances of Die Walküre at the Sydney Opera House, the second instalment in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Der Ring des Nibelungen 2023-26, following Das Rheingold in November 2023.

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