Music by Richard Wagner

Badisches Staatstheater 
Karlsruhe, Germany
December 2016

Director: Yuval Sharon
Conductor: Justin Brown
Set Designer: Sebastian Hannak
Projection Designer: Jason H. Thompson
Costume Designer: Sarah Rolke

For the Karlsruhe Ring, four different directors presented diverging points of view on the cycle. For Walküre, Sharon created three worlds: the claustrophobic, linear world of the humans Siegmund and Sieglinde, an interminable corridor of doors leading into illusory realms; an endless moving stairway, where Wotan and the gods appear to continually climb upwards to glory without moving anywhere; and the rough, barren mountaintop where a snowstorm rages, and where Brünnhilde is frozen in an ice coffin to await Siegfried.

Photography provided courtesy of Badisches Staatstheater.