Berliner Philharmoniker: Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Wagner’s “Walküre”

The audience encounters Wotan, the father of the gods, who is at once powerful and helpless; the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, who have fallen in love with one another; and, of course, the title heroine: the fearless Valkyrie Brünnhilde.

Wagner’s music makes the diverse emotions of all these characters vividly palpable. Following performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic bring *Die Walküre* to Berlin in a concert version—as a continuation of their *Der Ring des Nibelungen* cycle, which began last season.