Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008, this is the second part of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. Christian Thielemann, one of the most sought-after conductors in the world, takes the baton with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra.

4 CD SET

Siegmund: Endrik Wottrich

Hunding: Kwangchul Youn

Wotan: Albert Dohmen

Sieglinde: Eva-Maria Westbroek

Brünnhilde: Linda Watson

Fricka: Michelle Breedt

Gerhilde: Sonja Mühleck

Ortlinde: Anna Gabler

Waltraute: Martina Dike

Schwertleite: Simone Schröder

Helmwige: Edith Haller

Siegrune: Wilke te Brummelstroete

Grimgerde: Annette Küttenbaum

Roßweiße: Manuela Bress

Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus

Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra

Conductor: Christian Thielemann

Director: Tankred Dorst

Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, in 2008.

“Thielemann’s conducting again creates the opera’s unique mystery… The first scene between Sieglinde, Siegmund and Hunding is really dramatic with Eva-Maria Westbroek’s vividly sung Sieglinde, Kwangchul Youn’s fine Hunding and Endrik Wottrich’s Seigmund now dramatically developed. …the wholeness of music, performance and human joy and suffering leaves the audience deeply moved and passionately enthusiastic.”

The Stage

“ ... there is no doubt that this year's Ring at Bayreuth belongs to... Thielemann... [who] creates a musical experience epic in its scale and inexorable in its apocalyptic, shattering power.”

The Guardian