Sung by Wendy Bryn Harmer, Jessica Klein, Suzanne Hendrix, Luretta Bybee, Tamara Mancini, Sarah Heltzel, Renée Tatum, and Cecelia Hall, with the Seattle Opera Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch, 2013.

Wagner’s noisy goddesses of death and carnage ride their thunderclouds through the night sky, assembling on their mountaintop for a laugh with each other before bearing the corpses of the mightiest dead warriors up to Valhalla to join the heavenly army. RING audiences hear this well-known music at the start of Act 3 of “Die Walküre.”