Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Der Ring des Nibelungen, WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse le
Scene 1 of Das Rheingold from the first Bayreuth Festival production of the Bühnenfestspiel in 1876
Illustration of Brünnhilde by Odilon Redon, 1885
Amalie Materna, the first Bayreuth Brünnhilde, with Cocotte, the horse donated by King Ludwig to play her horse Grane
The Rhinemaidens in the first Bayreuth production in 1876
Götterdämmerung
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August
Der Ring des Nibelungen
…Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) Individual works of the sequence are often performed separately, and indeed the operas contain dialogues that mention events in…
Valhalla in flames, in an 1894 depiction by Max Brückner, one of the original set designers
The Norns weave the Rope of Destiny, an illustration for Wagner's Ring by Franz Stassen, 1914.
Brünnhilde is visited by her Valkyrie sister Waltraute (Arthur Rackham, 1912).
Stage design by Josef Hoffmann for original production in 1876 – Act II, Scene 2