Photo Credit: Cory Weaver, San Francisco Opera

Sung in German with English supertitles

Sunday, January 27, 2013, 3:00 PM
Concert Length: 2 hours

Meymandi Concert Hall, Duke Energy Center, Raleigh

Student rush tickets are $10, subject to availability. They will go on sale at the theater at 1:00 on Sunday, two hours before curtain.

Program: Die Walküre, Act I; selections from Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and others in concert

Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre begins with an intense musical storm that hounds the warrior Siegmund into an uncertain refuge. Soon, he draws a fabled sword from an ash tree, setting into motion one of the truly unforgettable stories in opera. Rarely seen outside of major cities such as New York and usually brought to Raleigh only in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, the entire first act of the second opera in Wagner’s epic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen comes to Meymandi Concert Hall in our most distinguished event of the 2012/13 season. In Die Walküre as well as excerpts from favorites such as Tristan und Isolde, Wagner’s unrivalled imagination meets an 80-piece orchestra and our spectacular singers, all under the baton of Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Timothy Myers.   More than ten thousand books and articles were written about Wagner during his lifetime alone. In the bicentennial year of his birth, at the North Carolina Opera, discover why.