Cast
- Humans
- Siegmund: tenor
Sieglinde: soprano
Hunding: bass
- Siegmund: tenor
- God
- Wotan: bass-baritone
- Goddess
- Fricka: mezzo-soprano
- Valkyries
- Brünnhilde: soprano
Gerhilde: soprano
Ortlinde: soprano
Waltraute: mezzo-soprano
Schwerleite: contralto
Helmwige: soprano
Siegrune: mezzo-soprano
Grimgerde: mezzo-soprano
Roßweiße: mezzo-soprano
- Brünnhilde: soprano
- Chorus
- Orchestra
- piccolo, 3 flutes (3rd doubles piccolo), 3 oboes, English Horn (doubles oboe)
- 3 clarinets (B flat , A), bass clarinet (B flat , A), 3 bassoons*
- 8 horns (2 double Wagner Tubas in F, 2 in B flat ), 2 wagner tubas (F), 3 trumpets, bass trumpet
- 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, contrabass trombone, contrabass tuba
- 2 timpani, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, tamtam, glockenspiel
- 6 harps, 16 violin I, 16 violin II, 12 viola, 12 cellos, 8 basses
- *3rd bassoon can alternate on contrabassoon if needed for required low A passages
found in regular 3rd bassoon part
- piccolo, 3 flutes (3rd doubles piccolo), 3 oboes, English Horn (doubles oboe)