Valkyrie in the reconstructed original sound - a milestone

"The music sounds much rougher, harsher, wilder than usual, it rumbles, creaks and groans in the literally historical woodwork - with today's orchestras, still trimmed to a philharmonically rounded sound, one rarely hears such primal immediacy."

"They use the transitional forms between speaking and singing that Wagner wanted, but which are hardly ever consciously used in operatic practice, for psychologically cleverly deepened role portraits. This really is a new chapter in Wagner interpretation."

(23.08.2024, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Christian Wildhagen)