Die Walküre: Performance History

Cast:

• Siegmund : Heinrich Vogl (also created role of Loge in original Das Rheingold and in the Ring)
• Sieglinde : Therese Vogl (also created role of Wellgunde in Das Rheingold)
• Hunding : Kaspar Bausewein (also created roles of Harald in Die Feen, Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger, and Fafner in Das Rheingold)
• Wotan : August Kindermann (also created roles of Wotan in Das Rheingold and Titurel in Parsifal)
• Brünnhilde : Sophie Stehle (also created role of Fricka in Das Rheingold)
• Fricka : Anna Kaufmann (also created role of Woglinde in Das Rheingold)
• Gerhilde : Karoline Lenoff
• Ortlinde : Henriette Müller
• Waltraute : Hemauer
• Schwertleite : Emma Seehofer (also created role of Erda in Das Rheingold)
• Helmwige : Anna Possart-Deinet (also created role of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde)
• Siegrune : Anna Eichheim
• Grimgerde : Wilhelmine Ritter (also created role of Flosshilde in Das Rheingold)
• Rossweisse : Juliane Tyroler

First performance as part of Der Ring des Nibelungen: 14 August 1876, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth

Cast:

• Siegmund : Albert Niemann (also created title role in revised version of Tannhäuser)
• Sieglinde : Josephine Scheffzky (also created role of 2nd Norn)
• Hunding : Josef Niering
• Wotan : Franz Betz
• Brünnhilde : Amalia Materna (also created role of Kundry in Parsifal)
• Fricka : Frederike Grün-Sadler (also created role of 3rd Norn)
• Gerhilde : Marie Haupt (also created roles of Freia and a Forestbird)
• Ortlinde : Marie Lehmann (also created role of Wellgunde)
• Waltraute : Luise Jaide (also created role of Erda)
• Schwertleite : Johanna Jachmann-Wagner (also created role of 1st Norn)
• Helmwige : Lilli Lehmann (also created role of Woglinde)
• Siegrune : Antonie Amann
• Grimgerde : Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann
• Rossweisse : Marie Lammert

First performance in:

• Austria: 5 Mar 1877, Vienna
• United States: 2 Apr 1877, New York (Academy of Music)
• Netherlands: 17 Apr 1878, Rotterdam
• United Kingdom: 6? May 1882, London (His Majesty's) [as part of the Ring]
• Poland: Sep 1882, Wroclaw [as part of the Ring]
• Belgium: 24? Jan 1883, Brussels [as part of the Ring]
• Switzerland: 27? Mar 1883, Basle [as part of the Ring]
• Italy: 15? Apr 1883, Venice [as part of the Ring]
• Hungary: 24? May 1883, Budapest [as part of the Ring]
• France: 23 Dec 1883, Strasbourg
• Czech Republic: 20 Dec 1885, Prague
• Russia: 12? Mar 1889, St. Petersburg [as part of the Ring]
• Latvia: 25 Oct 1889, Riga
• Denmark: 7 Mar 1891, Copenhagen
• Mexico: 14 Apr 1891, Mexico City
• Sweden: 7 Nov 1895, Stockholm
• Croatia: 16 Apr 1898, Zagreb
• Spain: 25 Jan 1899, Barcelona
• Argentina: 10 May 1899, Buenos Aires
• Egypt: 1901, Cairo
• Estonia: 1902, Tallinn
• Finland: 3 Apr 1905, Helsinki
• Australia: 1907, Melbourne
• Monaco: 27? Jan 1909, Monte Carlo [as part of the Ring]
• Portugal: 1909, Lisbon [as part of the Ring]
• Scotland: 1? Mar 1910, Edinburgh [as part of the Ring]
• Belarus: Feb 1911, Lvov [as part of the Ring]
• South Africa: Mar 1912, Johannesburg
• Brazil: Sep 1913, Rio de Janeiro
• Norway: 24 Aug 1920, Oslo
• Romania: 8 Nov 1923, Bucharest
• Slovenia: 17 Nov 1929, Ljubljana
• Yugoslavia: 17 May 1938, Belgrade
• Bulgaria: 11? Nov 1938, Sofia [as part of the Ring]
• Greece: 28? Nov 1938, Athens [as part of the Ring]

• Metropolitan Opera: 30 Jan 1885 (317 performances in 67 seasons through 1975-76)
• San Francisco Opera: 4 Nov 1935 (53 performances in 16 seasons through 1997-98, most recently 29 Nov 1995; most frequently performed of Wagner's operas)