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DESCRIPTION:May 19-24\, 2026\nAdmire\, as you enter\, the swirling silver e
 nvelope of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Once in your seat\, a
 dmire his scenic design for Die Walküre\, the most popular quarter of Ric
 hard Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. Two decades ago\, the L
 APhil’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 T
 ristan und Isolde with 20th- or 21st-century concert work that in one way 
 or another bears Tristan’s stamp. Nothing that imaginative is being atte
 mpted 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 pow
 erfully projected tenor first caught our ear in the title role of Omar\, R
 hiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning operatic biogr
 aphy of a Muslim scholar from Africa sold into slavery in America. This ti
 me out\, McCorkle portrays the romantic scofflaw Siegmund\, one of Wagner
 ’s most engaging heroes\, Jessica Faselt is Sieglinde\, the long-lost tw
 in that Siegmund rediscovers and impregnates in his last 24 hours on earth
 . Ryan Speedo Green sings their father Wotan\, who sired them with an agen
 da that doesn’t pan out as he intended. Christine Goerke is Wotan’s Va
 lkyrie daughter Brünnhilde\, who does wind up redeeming the world\, but n
 ot until Götterdämmerung. Alberto Arvelo\, principally associated with f
 ilm\, is the director.
LOCATION:Walt Disney Concert Hall\, 111 S Grand Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA 9001
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SUMMARY:Die Walküre\, by Richard Wagner
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