Act 1 Episode 3 - No Escape

Soft Valkyrie

English - June 17, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Previous Episode: Act 1 Episode 2 - The Master of the House

Next Episode: Act 1 Episode 4 - Kisses in the Night

Hunding jumps up and reveals that he knows that Siegmund is not just any guest. He is the man Hunding and his crew had been chasing. He offers him one night of repose under his roof, and announces to fight him the following morning.

Note: to hear Soft Valkyrie with live English, German or Dutch subtitles, please go to Youtube. The libretto can also be found here.

Soft Valkyrie
Presented and commissioned by Holland Festival in collaboration with Staatsoper Hannover and Dutch National Opera.

Directed, arranged and produced by David Kanaga

Siegmund - Bryan the Mensah

Sieglinde - Hailey Clark

Hunding - Attila Csihar
Wotan - Mattijs van de Woerd

Brünnhilde - Claron McFadden

Fricka - Nadine Secunde

Valkyries - Mercedes Arcuri, Clara Nadesdin, Weronika Rabek, and Monika Walerowicz

Narrator - Stephen Fry

Casting by Christian Carlstedt and David Kanaga

Act 1 MIDI piano reduction performed by Marc Evanstein

Acts 2 and 3 performed by Ernst Munneke

Synoptic texts and dramaturgy - Laura Roling

With special thanks to Jochem Valkenburg and Jasper Berben

Words and music by Richard Wagner

In an English translation by Frederick Jameson