Vida Miknevičiūtė and Eric Cutler in Die Walküre on the Staatsoper unter den Linden / Picture: Monika Rittershaus
Earlier this spring, Lithuanian soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė grew to become the discuss of the city when she was introduced as taking up the position of Minnie from Sondra Radvanovsky within the Met’s upcoming new manufacturing of Fanciulla. Contemporary off a run as Strauss’s Empress in Aix, Miknevičiūtė subsequent joins Claus Guth’s manufacturing of Walküre as Sieglinde in Hamburg, the position by which we hear her in the present day.
Her Siegmund is American tenor Eric Cutler who has reduce his heldentenor tooth in Europe following early profession outings in Mozart and bel canto repertoire. (He was the Arturo to Netrebko’s Elvira, keep in mind?)
Cutler sings Bacchus within the Salzburg Pageant’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which opens on Sunday. He then returns to Zurich for performances of Tannhäuser and he’ll reunite with Miknevičiūtė for performances of Walküre in January. However whereas New York audiences may have the possibility to listen to Miknevičiūtė’s Sieglinde when Gianandrea Noseda brings the forces of the Zurich Opera to Carnegie Corridor subsequent spring for a live performance Ring cycle, Cutler has different plans: first Lohengrin in Berlin after which Parsifal in Dresden.
Wagner: Die Walküre, “Der Männer Sippe saß hier I’m Saal… Du bist der Lenz”
Vida Miknevičiūtė
Eric Cutler
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Staatsoper unter den Linden
Berlin
28 September 2025
In-house
