Karen Cargill and Miina-Liisa Värelä in Tristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne in 2024 / Photo: ASH
Next week, the Bayerische Staatsoper unveils the second installment of its new Ring production directed by Tobias Kratzer. Following last summer’s Das Rheingold, which Parterre Box critic Montagu James described as “so rife with subtle references, smart Personenregie, and old-school stage effects that a comprehensive summary would be far too long,” Kratzer’s Die Walküre reunites many of the singers from his Rheingold with the addition of the 44-year-old Finnish soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä singing her first Brünnhilde.
Värelä, an experienced Isolde, sang the role in the opera’s most recent Glyndebourne performances in 2024 and today’s performance features her singing the Narrative and Curse recorded with the Gylndebourne forces a few years earlier, in 2021.
After she finishes up in Munich, she’ll head to Bayreuth where she will be Kundry opposite Andreas Schager’s Parsifal in second revival of Jay Schieb’s VR production.
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, “Den hab ich wohl vernommen…”
Karen Cargill
Miina-Liisa Värelä
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Glyndebourne at the Proms, Royal Albert Hall
31 August 2021
Broadcast
