Met Opera Broadcast: Die Walkure

The biggest problem with Wagner’s Die Walkure isn’t its length, even though yesterday a five and a half hour viewing experience was stretched to six when there was half an hour’s delay before curtain, apparently because the computer that dictated the movement of the set was lacking some data(21st-century theater problems!).  For the first two thirds, in fact, you don’t really feel the time, which is a sign of something being good.  It does start to drag more during the end, when you start to think Brunnhilde might have to die, because usually in opera a death at the end is the only thing that will stretch it out to that extent.  I suppose the death of her immortality can arguably be given the same importance.