The Met Live in HD: 'Die Walküre'

Recorded live on stage at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 2011 and now brought to the big screen, 'Die Walküre' is the second part of Wagner's 'Ring Cycle'. The mysterious hero Siegmund finds shelter in the strangely familiar arms of a lonely woman named Sieglinde. Their forbidden love leads Wotan's daughter, the warrior maiden Brünnhilde, to defy morality and intervene on behalf of the hero. Starring Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Bryn Terfel (Wotan) and Hans-Peter König (Hunding). (Runs 259 minutes, including one interval.)