Movie
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre @ Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
2022 · 235 min
A slow, monumental opera staging that feels like watching a mythic tragedy unfold in a sterile 1970s lab.
- Directed by
- Andy Sommer, Dmitri Tcherniakov
- Genres
- Music, Fantasy
- Overview
- The second part of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in Dimitri Tcherniakov’s new production. He has thoroughly modernised the material and set the action in a research institute in the 1970s. Christian Thielemann is conducting *Der Ring des Nibelungen* at the Berlin State Opera, standing in for the house conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is unwell.
- How it feels
- Dark, tense, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Family, power, betrayal, fate
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andy Sommer, Dmitri Tcherniakov
- Genres
- Music, Fantasy
