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
The Rhinemaidens in the first Bayreuth production of Das Rheingold, 1876. l to r: Minna Lammert (Floßhilde); Lilli Lehmann (Woglinde); Marie Lehmann (Wellgunde)
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)
Nibelung
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The term Nibelung or Niflungr is a personal or clan name with several competing and contradictory uses in Germanic heroic legend. It has an unclear etymology, but is often connected to the root of Ger
Das Rheingold
…Alberich's theft of the Rhine gold after his renunciation of love; his fashioning of the all-powerful ring from the gold and his enslavement of the Nibelungs; Wotan's seizure of the gold and the ring, to pay his debt to the giants who have built his fortress Valhalla; Alberich's curse on the ring and its…
The dwarf Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. (Arthur Rackham, 1910)
Nibelungs fountain in Durlach, 1915 by Otto Feist