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Portrait of Richard Wagner, Giclee Print, Lenback
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Das Rheingold in Full Score
Das Rheingold
in Full Score

Das Rheingold Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle Part I DVD
Das Rheingold Bayreuth Festival
Ring Cycle Part I DVD

I Saw the World End: A Study of Wagner's Ring
I Saw the World End:
A Study of Wagner's Ring



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Das Rheingold Opera Educational Posters & Prints
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Wagner Operas

Götterdämmerung
Lohengrin
Meistersinger
Parsifal
Das Rheingold
Ring of Nibelungen
Siegfried
Tannhauser
Tristan & Isolde
Die Walküre

The Ring Cycle opera tetralogy is based on Germanic and Nordic mythology.

The Ring consists of four operas - a prelude, Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), then Die Walküre (The Valkyries), Siegfried, and Gotterdåmmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) - in which Wagner met his life's ambition to create a “Gesamtkunstwerk”, a total experience uniting music, poetry, dance, and drama, into one art piece.

Das Rheingold was premiered at the National Theatre in Munich on September 22, 1869, it's first performance as part of the cycle was at Bayreuth on 13 August 1876.

The action opens and ends underneath the Rhine, the longest river in Germany, where the three Rhine maidens, Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde, are playing together and protecting a hoard of gold. Can't you just feel the water swirling in this selection from the orchestral prelude?

Rhinegold Opening Orchestral Prelude & Weia! Waga! Wandering Waters (Woglinde)
English National Opera Orchestra, Reginald Goodall, cond., March 1975, Internet Archive



Motifs from Rheingold, Art Print
Motifs from Rheingold, Art Print

Scene from Rheingold, Art Print
Scene from Rheingold,
Art Print


Motifs from Rheingold, Art Print
Motifs from Rheingold, Art Print

Rheingold, first scene, 1888, Giclee Print
Rheingold, first scene, 1888,
Giclee Print


The Ring, Das Rheingold, Giclee Print
The Ring, Das Rheingold, Giclee Print

Scene from Rheingold, Art Print
Scene from Rheingold,
Art Print


Germany, The Rhine, Giclee Print
Germany, The Rhine,
Giclee Print

American poet Walt Whitman called the Rhine “The most beautiful river in the world.”

The Rhine, the longest river in Germany, is one of the settings for Das Rheingold opera.

Among people associated with the Rhine River are mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and poet Heinrich Heine's Die Lore-Ley poem based on the Lorelei myth.

List of World Rivers


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