Oh Warfather on high I am calling you from the battlefield And as I take my last breath I call for the mightiest of miracles For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to the ancient Valhalla Oh Warfather on high Listen to my prayer I lived my life by your rules Oh let death cover me now For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to Valhalla of old [Chorus] With the Valkyries, ride over the battlefield Ride your horses and come to me I'm waiting for you to take my soul, high in the sky to Valhalla of old Valkyries, ride over the battlefield I'm dying and glad to bleed Because I know today I will take my place with the heroes In Valhalla of old For none but the brave, be he king or a slave With a pounding heart in his chest Will be worthy to rise and with the Valkyries fly And ride to Valhalla of old [Chorus] With the Valkyries, ride over the battlefield Ride your horses and come to me I'm waiting for you to take my soul, high in the sky to Valhalla of old Valkyries, ride over the battlefield I'm dying and glad to bleed Because I know today I will take my place with the heroes In Valhalla of old In The Halls of Valhalla I finally take my place With my sword and my shield I enter Odin's realm I'm an immortal spirit now with a heart made of steel With the gods on high forever I will live and laugh at the Fears of man

Love the score, but you know you're old when you hear the music and in you're mind you hear Elmer Fudd singing Kill the Wabbit.

Looney Tunes is what taught me to appreciate classical music and I passed it to my children. It was wonderful growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything.

When you are a battlefield and suddenly hear that music plus the shrieks, laughs, and songs of the Valkyries, get ready for a ride... to Valhalla.

The fact that the women's voices can still carry over that hefty orchestra at full volume is amazing!

'Magnificent' is a gross understatement. Those ladies added another dimension to the performance. Bravo! 💥

I flew helicopters in South Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry 1970-1971. And listening to this has me pumped up at age 75.

I love the staging. Simple and effective. And no horned helmets. When I hear this I am reminded how well the human voice can stand up to a full orchestra without electrification.

Absolutely outstanding. Gave me goosebumps and the hairs on my neck and arms were standing up. Sadly Ive never heard it sung by such amazing singers, Ive only ever heard the instrumental version. Ive saved this to watch again. Just truly soul inspiring vocals by all the ladies.

Just not the same without helmets and steel breastplates..... I love this piece along with the rest of the ring cycle. BTW, I don"t see Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits, I see Huey gunships and Robert DuVall assaulting a Vietnamese village. When I hear the fire magic music where Wotan summons Logi, I see massive space battleships with tiny auxillary craft flying to and fro.

This is one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had, watching this performance

So great to see the individual solo work which gets lost on recordings. I really liked the staggered entrances onto the stage. Really gets to the heart of the action.

Didn't understand a word they sang, but those women surpassed the orchestra in my enjoyment of the performance. Well done ladies.

Old classics never die, they mature with age. Bellissimo. Grazie.

I never get tired of listening to this piece.

When my father bought his first stereo in the 50s , this was on it. Loved it then , love it more now.

I like how the performers sitting in front of the slide trombones have head protection built into their chairs.

I was in a gifted program in elementary school. Our third grade curriculum consisted, in large part, of Norse mythology and Wagner’s ring cycle. Ride of the Valkyrie was my favorite part. It’s also kill the wabbit, the smell of napalm in the morning, and a Maxell commercial. This performance is definitely fantastic!!!

Outstanding. Richard Wagner was a genius, indeed. Love his work.❤

Outstanding Richard, outstanding! I’ll get you a case of beer for that!

There is just something special about watching humans manually make music.... There must be 60+ of them, all in sync... Fantastic...

RUN CHARLIE!!!

Brilliant. The acting of the singers makes this special. The looking up effect.

Outstanding! Brought tears to my eyes! Magnificent performance of Wagners genius.

"WE USE WAGNER. IT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF THE SLOPES. MY BOYS LOVE IT!"

Yes, you cannot perform this song without a commitment to the drama and theater it entails. Well done!

I love how the different Valkyries a.k.a. singers are coming in singing their part 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thank goodness for the Internet. I never seen anything like this before. Good job, ladies and orchestra.🥰

when the women began, i lost it...Magnificent!

How exquisite: the orchestra was perfect, their playing gave me chills. The singers were so powerful and the depth of their range and voices is unmatched.

My pops used to put this on the record player and I run madly around the house and jump on the furniture. I miss the 60's.

Good performance. The music certainly conjures up ladies you don't want to mess about with.

Beautiful production and performance by all involved! Have to be honest, every time I hear that opening suite of music, I immediately see helicopters coming in low out of the rising sun in head.

Fantastic!!!! Those powerful voices!!! 💫💫

Beautiful. Captivating. I don't think i've ever heard such a heartfelt performance of this piece.

А я все гадал, как же выглядят валькирии... Так аппетитно! Да еще и поют! Похитили мой покой...

Toll! was für Stimmen! Was für Frauen!

Was für ein tolles Kulturgut, danke an so viel Kunst.

This is so cool. Congrats for a fine performance.

Благо Дарю ВАС за эфир. Одно слово ВЕЧНО живёт и будет жить . Исполнение превосходное. БРАВО ❤

We'll come in low out of the rising sun and about a mile out we'll put on the music......

Here come the helicopters from "Apocalypse Now"...I can hear Lt. Kilgore saying "I love the smell of napalm in the morning...it reminds me of victory".

Beautiful voices, outfits, colours, atmosphere, music, orchestra, pleasure to be part of this great team. ☕️🎵🇷🇸🇦🇺👌🙏💯❤️ 7:43

Ι am immigrating to Bergen in May. I love opera and classical music, so I hope I'll be able to see you up close one day. Great rendition!

Vielen Dank für diese virtuose Interpretation. Schade, dass in unserer sogenannten modernen Zeit so eine bezaubernde Musikkultur nur noch sehr selten zu sehen und zu hören ist.

pretty tepid applause for such a magnificent performance of very difficult music

In Billington's great book Fire in the Minds of Men, The Revolutionary Faith, he describes how opera was utilized in the great revolutions of the 1840s. People would leave the theater entranced and with Revolutionary fervor!

Thanks, Miss Gregory for teaching musical appreciation all those years ago. Another “goosebumps” performance!

RUN CHARLIE!

Wow,wow,wow.what a joy I bumped into this wow!!

This piece is actually called The Ride of the Valkyries. The helicopters flying scene in Apocalypse Now was so iconic that it is now confused with flight, hence the common mistake of calling it The Flight of the Valkyries.

I had the pleasure of seeing Bugs Bunny at The Symphony at Lincoln Center a few years back, which was a live Looney Tunes screening of classic cartoons accompanied by the New York Philarmonic playing the score - and this was the opening number! Remember the old Maxwell TV ad with the guy being blown away by the speaker? This piece being performed live was exactly like that!

Lively & uplifting performances - uniquely theatrical & unconventional. What a pleasure!

Brought tears to my eyes. Awesome.

This is good to wake up and have a cup of coffee! Love it!

Such beautiful music and the synchronization of everyone is amazing .

I am in the stars, you all are great. Thank you.

Qué volumen de voces Dios mío!!!! Magníficas!!!! ❤❤❤!

Love this. I was fortunate enough to see a live performance of The Ring in Seattle, WA in 2009, I believe. It was wonderful.

All I can think of when I hear this is a flight of choppers unleashing hell on a village in the middle of the jungle.

Is beautiful !

When I lived in San Francisco Public TV had Der Ring des Nibelungen on over 4 nights.

Великолепно мурашки бегали по всему телу супер спасибо за этот ролик ютьюбу❤😊

Such an iconic piece - least of all for that ominous scene from an equally iconic movie - Apocalypse Now

Excellent. Wagner is amazing.

Holy Crap! I've never been graced by the entire rendition before. Mostly just what Apocalyse Now had to offer. But with the addition of all of those pro opera singers - WOW This was a musical spectacle!

This made me fall in love with this piece all over again!

Glorious. Everybody singers and musicians having fun and making a living! This is what it is all about. Thank you.

certo che con una simile musica ed il canto delle valkyrie nelle orecchie chiunque finirebbe per sentirsi trasportaro al tempo degli dei e degli eroi e - quasi quasi - si getterebbe in battaglia - già ma quale ??? ed eravamo già in battaglia poi ??? e con chi ? e perchè? - per guadagnarsi il Walhalla - anche chi non beneficato da nordici ascendenti con le valkyrie non c'entra per nulla ... troppo bravo questo WAGNER 😃😄😁😆🤣😂🙂😛😜😉

What a wuss I am - this brings tears to my eyes. ❤

I have seen the Ring several times. In performance, this scene always comes off as a bit of a letdown..The stage is simply too large, the operatic cosmos too large to comfortably encompass the Valkyries (who come off, on stage, like little shrieking worms). In Concertante, however, every Valkyrie here shines and struts her stuff. This is how Wagner imagned it (constrained as he was by the limits of the stage): simply utterly insane magnificent celestial MUSIC. One is speechless at its asoutnding creativity, its newness and freshness and radicality even today almost 150 years after Wagner wrote it. BLAZING AMAZING INCREDIBLE thank you to all the performers and orchrestra

The ladies are excellent singers; but, next time can they wear armor, shields, swords, and horned helmets on stage because that would be so cool!

What a voice!!!! OMG!!! She’s with the violins. 🎻 Bravissima!!!!

Absolutely brilliant,thank you ❤️

Wearing valkyrie armor should be mandated for this.

One word. WOW!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

After entropy becomes chaos and awakens to an order that's accepted in its moment.

If you don’t see helicopters flying hearing this, you’re too soft

Darn! ... Feel like jumping on my Huey! ... Marvelous! Thank you for posting!

Inever get tired of listening to this piece.🌞🌞

These women! 💥

Terrific! Terrific! Terrific!

I like ride of the valkries❤❤

espectacular...!!!!!! hermoso...!!!!!!

Just amazing.

Wonderful! Thank you!

Wow. Stunning

Phenomenal

Incredible !!!

Wow! Superb orchestra and the singers staging so dramatic!

Love Ride of the Valkyries, many of Wagner's arias one of my favorite operas is Tristan und Isolde. I used to have Valkyries as my ringtone. Saw Tristan und Isolde at our local theater, LIVE AT THE MET

extraordinaire.... quelle performance!... bravo et bonjour Trondheim... ville qui reste dans mon coeur

Glorious!

Magnifique !

The absolute feels ❤🎉❤

Truly a treat, the great music with the voices of the women warriors to boot

What goes through my mind is how uncomfortable it was sitting on my steel pot helmet in a Huey bouncing all over the sky.

Magnificent!

Il faut une sacrée dose de génie pour écrire une musique pareille.

LOVE this!~

The opening was also a great Northern States Power commercial from the 70s. A guy reading the paper starts hearing the refrain. All of a sudden a helmeted woman dressed like a Viking (Brunnhilde) opens the front door carrying a spear with a piece of paper on the end, singing "Welcome to winter, in Minnesota, here is your fuel bill, haha haha."