Die Walküre

Wagner Die Walküre opera to a libretto by the composer. Directed 2010 by Tankred Dorst, with assistance by Ursula Ehler, at the Bayreuth Festival. Stars Johan Botha, Kwangchul Youn, Albert Dohmen, Edith Haller, Linda Watson, Mihoko Fujimura, Sonja Mühleck, Anna Gabler, Martina Dike, Simone Schröder, Miriam Gordon-Stewart, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Annette Küttenbaum, and Alexandra Petersamer. Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Sets by Frank Philipp Schlößmann; costumes by Bernd Ernst Skodzig; lighting by Ulrich Niepel; dramaturgy by Norbert Abels; music supervision by Christoph Ulrich Meier; directed for TV by Michael Beyer. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: Help! 

Arnold Whittall praises this production (especially the conducting of Christian Thielemann) in the June 2011 Gramophone, but you have to wonder if he saw the Blu-ray version or just the DVD. Please help us by writing a comment that we can place here as a mini-review of this title.