Richard Wagner: Die Walküre @ Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Directed by Andy Sommer and Dmitri Tcherniakov

With Christian Thielemann, Staatskapelle Berlin, Kristina Stanek, Anna Lapkovskaja and Natalia Skrycka

The second part of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in Dimitri Tcherniakov’s new production. He has thoroughly modernised the material and set the action in a research institute in the 1970s. Christian Thielemann is conducting *Der Ring des Nibelungen* at the Berlin State Opera, standing in for the house conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is unwell.