Das Rheingold
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Das Rheingold, WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It premiered as a single opera at the National Theatre of Munich on 2
Alberich's seizure of the Rhine gold, as depicted in scene 1 of the 1876 production
Wotan's fortress of Valhalla (Brückner, 1896)
Alberich and the subjugated Nibelung dwarfs (illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1910)
Libretto cover for Das Rheingold (Peter Hoffer)
Therese Vogl
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Therese Vogl was a German operatic soprano, the first Wellgunde in Wagner's Das Rheingold, and the first Sieglinde in his Die Walküre.
Therese Vogl (1877)
