Ferdinand Leeke - Brunhilde knelt at his feet from 'The Stories of Wagners Operas' by J Walker McSpadden, 1905.
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„WALKÜRE“ R. Wagner / SECOND and THIRD ACT
Some Brünnhildes
Amalie Materna as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, 1889
Pauline Mailhac as Brünnhilde; Karlsruhe, 1891
Ellen Gulbranson as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1902
Lucienne Breval as Brünnhilde; Paris, ca. 1900
Anna Bahr-Mildenburg als Brünnhilde; Vienna, ca. 1900
Laure Berge as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, ?
Elise Beuer als Brünnhilde; ?, ?
Olga Blomé as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1924
Lina Boeling as Brünnhilde; ?, ?
Helena Braun as Brünnhilde; Munich, ?
Gertrud Bindernagel as Brünnhilde; ?, ?
Berthe Briffaux as Brünnhilde; Antwerpen, 1932
Lotte Burck as Brünnhilde; Milan, 1932
Sara Cesar as Brünnhilde; Rome, 1920
Sofie Cordes-Palm as Brünnhilde; ?, ?
Erna Denera as Brünnhilde; Berlin, ?
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Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre (Bayreuth, 1980): Reactions, Part II
and we continue!!!
@beckmessering
we love a good pendulum! (and prelude)
yeah hunding doesn’t deserve valhalla
BRÜNNHILDE HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tfw you’re in the middle of your dad’s disputes with his wife
wotan: “maybe i wouldn’t have fucked erda if i knew that i’d have even ONE daughter who constantly sang ‘hojotoho’ at top volume RIGHT BY MY EAR”
i want that dress
GIRLIE NO DON’T HELP *HUNDING*
i mean honestly? kinda valid
also fair
…ouch
hear me out: what if the existence of the divine and human free will AREN’T incompatible???
WHAT NO
noooooooooooooooooooooo
“…uh, did i interrupt something”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
no love lost here
why did that skirt swoosh feel almost PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE
the PAIN
previously on the Ring… (but it actually works here for the story)
donald mcintyre is just *chef’s kiss*
OOF.
she fights for LOVE, which is honestly the best kind of fighting
YES GIRLIE GO OFF
WOTAN WHAT THE FUCK
she knows inside what she has to do
even though it hurts
they are…not doing well at the moment!
he’s trying his best tho
she can’t forgive herself
and she’s TRAUMATIZED
nonononono
oh BUDDY
gotta break the news somehow
she can end his suffering…
okay ngl he’s kind of a snack
and now for a commercial about valhalla
…but he can’t take his true love with him
and that’s a dealbreaker
even in the middle of this argument, his main concern is that she sleeps okay 🥺
not to make everything about the operas i’m perpetually thinking about, but definitely to make wagner roll in his grave…this is *so* les huguenots (giacomo meyerbeer, 1836) coded
she’s trying her best
SIEGMUND NO
she’s convinced
and she’s going to follow her gut and fight for her belief in love
i wanna hug them both so badly
oh HONEY
it starts…
LEAVE HER ALONE
YES BRÜNNHILDE
FUCK YOU WOTAN
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
heart: broken
if she can’t save one at least she can save the other
this boy is in AGONY
you can HEAR the pain in his voice
“orrrrrrrrrr just flop down on top of siegmund. whatever”
LEAVE BRÜNNHILDE ALONE
buddy you fucked up BIG time
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"I am holding my loneliness and she is a teenage girl with puffy eyes, and I love her more than I have ever loved anyone."
Is just so Lily Evans. She loves her younger self and wishes she could tell her she is worthy, she is smart that she is loved. That she will find some of the most important people in her life and even when she loses her sister she will find another. She will find love and happiness and she is so proud of how far she's come. She's no longer lonely....she's no longer questioning her worth.
Young lily Evans worked herself to the bone trying to prove her worth, she studied harder than most staying in the dorms when the others went out to hogsmeade. She wouldn't move on from a spell till she perfected it. She had no friends for so long...she felt so alone and her sister was pulling away from her. She felt that she would never have friends and gave up on the idea of living a life without loneliness.
She was pleasantly surprised to find she did have friends though...all this time she had thought she was alone and yet she walked to class with Mary and Marlene. She did potions with Severus, later dorcas. She studied with Remus and regulus. She went to hogsmeade with the boys in Gryffindor and the girls.
She did her nails with Mary on Sundays. She went to the quidditch pitch with Remus so they could support James, Sirius and Marlene. They were always there .... And she had failed to notice. She wishes she could tell her younger self that she was never alone...not since stepping off that train and meeting them all.
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Currently reading this book. 30% (ish) of the way through. It’s based on the legend of Brynhildr and Sigurd (a Germanic saga). The prose is poetic and feels as though you (the reader) are eavesdropping on a conversation. Both of the protagonists throughout their narration are addressing it to each other. I’m very invested in learning how it is going to develop throughout and how those developments will change and add to the story it is based off. I am enjoying the way Kate Heartfield has approached these characters and the way in which she has provided historical context alongside the fantasy elements
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