Wagner Returns to Ridgefield Playhouse with Live Simulcast of DIE WALKÜRE

The Ring Returns! Die Walküre, Opera's supreme experience returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in six seasons with a cast of magnificent Wagnerians, led by the thrilling Christine Goerke making her Met debut as Brünnhilde. See Die Walküre in a live simulcast on the big screen at The Ridgefield Playhouse Saturday, March 30 at 12pm, part of Atria Senior Living Classical Series, underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz & Steven Goldstone and Sabina & Walter Slavin with support from Whistle Stop Bakery. Philippe Jordan conducts Robert Lepage's breathtaking production, which faithfully presents every detail of Wagner's immortal libretto.

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan's willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera's most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Die Walküre is the second in Wagner's four part Ring Cycle. Based on Norse mythology as told in the legendary Icelandic Volsunga Saga and the Edda, Die Walküre deals with two twins separated at birth who meet and fall in love, angering the gods.

The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. The Ridgefield Playhouse offers free tickets to The Metropolitan Opera in HD series to students 18 and younger as a way for parents to introduce their children to the arts. FREE tickets are also available to students 18 and younger for live and encore HD screenings of The Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre of London.

For tickets ($25 | Members & Seniors $20 | Students $15 | FREE for students 18 and under) call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.