Die Walküre at Barcelona Opera House Gran Teatre Del Liceu

The first part of Wagner's great mythological system is the building of Walhalla, the mansion of the gods. The second part – recounted in Die Walküre – is the evolution of human society, with its laws and taboos. The prologue to The Valkyrie shows the terrible consequences that inevitably arise in a place isolated from the world and set aside for the gods. Theft, murder and the devastation of land and culture are rampant. This opera, dominated by the horrors of war and tribal conflict and revenge, is a gloomy poem about apocalyptic prophecies and the betrayal of debased humanity, about the spread of moral corruption to an environment contaminated by the action of Man. Robert Carsen's production is the follow-up to the first 'day' of his Ring Cycle. In it he presents an environmentally pessimistic vision with close affinities to Schopenhauer's philosophy, itself the key to the evolution of Richard Wagner's Weltanschauung.