Director – Julia Burbach
Conductor and musical director – Peter Selwyn
Set and Costume designer – Bettina John
Lighting Desinger – Robert Price
Associate director – Mark Burns
CAST:
Natasha Jouhl | Sieglinde
Simon Wilding | Hunding
Elizabeth Karani | Helmwige
Harriet Williams | Fricka
Katie Stevenson | Rossweisse
Bethan Langford | Waltraute
Design assistant: Florence Pick
Costume maker: Evelien Van Camp
Costume assistant: Noemie Laffargue
As part of Grimeborn Opera Festival 2021 (Arcola Theatre, London)
★★★★★ “This is a performance that will live in the memory for many years. Sensational! Julia Burbach’s production, within Bettina John’s set of gleaming steel structures, is clear, incisive and frequently exceptionally beautiful.” – London Living Large
★★★★ “Slimmed and trimmed but just as exhilarating.” – Evening Standard
★★★★ “Does Wagner compelling justice … Julia Burbach’s insightful and compassionate direction, with its illuminating touches, brings the narrative and relationships to life … We are brought grippingly close to the characters.” – The Stage
★★★★ “this Walküre is a remarkably plucky achievement” – Bachtrack
★★★★ “A Die Walkürie that has much to offer Wagner superfans and plenty too for those dipping a toe … Peter Selwyn conducts the 18 strong Orpheus Sinfonia with such confidence, all the power and emotions of Wagner’s score working its way into our souls.” – Broadway World
★★★★ “We all have our comfort zones and for many people opera is not part of it. But after tonight’s Die Walkure we are starting to think there might be a Try It You Might LOVE IT Club that we should be forcibly insisting you all join.” – Queerguru
★★★★ “the singing is uniformly good … a wonderful way of making Wagner more accessible to new audiences” – Plays to See
★★★★ “It is a remarkable achievement at any time to mount a production of any of the Wagner Ring Cycle operas; to do so with 50% capacity limits at the present time deserves copious congratulations.” – Sardines
★★★★ “A little miracle” – Planet Hugill