Admire, as you enter, the swirling silver envelope of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Once in your seat, admire his scenic design for Die Walküre, the most popular quarter of Richard Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. Two decades ago, the LAPhil’s then music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the provocateur director Peter Sellars, and the matchless video artist Bill Viola presented their three-concert Tristan Project in this same locale, pairing each act of Tristan und Isolde with 20th- or 21st-century concert work that in one way or another bears Tristan’s stamp. Nothing that imaginative is being attempted this time. Instead, Gustavo Dudamel simply conducts each act of Die Walküre as a program unto itself that could balance musical pros against dramatic cons (or the opposite). Among the soloists, the one we’ve got the highest hopes for is Jamez McCorkle, whose sweet, soulful, yet powerfully projected tenor first caught our ear in the title role of Omar, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning operatic biography of a Muslim scholar from Africa sold into slavery in America. This time out, McCorkle portrays the romantic scofflaw Siegmund, one of Wagner’s most engaging heroes, Jessica Faselt is Sieglinde, the long-lost twin that Siegmund rediscovers and impregnates in his last 24 hours on earth. Ryan Speedo Green sings their father Wotan, who sired them with an agenda that doesn’t pan out as he intended. Christine Goerke is Wotan’s Valkyrie daughter Brünnhilde, who does wind up redeeming the world, but not until Götterdämmerung. Alberto Arvelo, principally associated with film, is the director. —Matthew Gurewitsch