Act 1 Episode 4 - Kisses in the Night

Soft Valkyrie

English - June 24, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Previous Episode: Act 1 Episode 3 - No Escape

Next Episode: Episode 10 – The Annunciation of Death (Act 2)

Episode 4: Kisses in the Night

Siegmund, all alone and desperate, discovers the sword his father had left for him in the ash tree. With her husband Hunding fast asleep, Sieglinde re-enters the room. The two indulge in their incestuous desire.

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