Wagner Das Rheingold

Classical Music / Opera (Music Drama)

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), WWW 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung.) It premiered at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, with August Kindermann as Wotan, Heinrich Vogl as Loge, and Karl Fischer as Alberich. Wagner allowed the performance only of this first cycle at the insistence of his patron King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The work was first performed as part of the complete cycle on 13 August 1876, in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.



Video Credit: 

Wagner - Der Ring Nibelungen: Das Rheingold. Richard Wagner. Das Rheingold. Adam Fischer/Vienna State Opera, 2016.  Youtube, uploaded by Randall G. Malstrom. Accessed April 20, 2023.

Resource:

Das Rheingold. en.wikipedia.org. Accessed September 22, 2016. 



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