Rozanna Madylus
(Picture: handout)At the end of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, the eponymous Valkyrie Brünnhilde is laid to sleep on a mountain rock by her father Wotan, ruler of the gods.
In Wotan’s view, his favourite daughter has disobeyed him by attempting to shield her brother Siegmund, whom Wotan’s consort Fricka has insisted be put to death for his incestuous adultery with his twin sister Sieglinde (from whom he was separated in childhood. It’s a complicated family).
