The Valkyrie
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Die Walküre (Wagner) premiered today in 1870
Die Walküre / The Valkyrie, WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas known Der Ring des Nibelungen / The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at…
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The Valkyrie (Wagner) premiered today in 1870
Valkyrie, also spelled Walkyrie, Old Norse Valkyrja (“Chooser of the Slain”), in Norse mythology, any of a group of maidens who served the god Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla. These foreboders of war rode to the battlefield on horses,…
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