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- Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) (1876)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
G. Schirmer controls the rights in the English translations by Frederick Jameson, Stewart Robb and Andrew Porter for this work but does not supply orchestral materials.
- Libretto by the composer. English trans. by Frederick Jameson, Stewart Robb, and Andrew Porter
- English, German
Programme Note
Cast List:
FIRST NORN: Contralto
SECOND NORN: Mezzo-Soprano
THIRD NORN: Soprano
BRÜNNHILDE: Soprano
SIEGFRIED: Tenor
GUNTHER: Baritone
HAGEN: Bass
GUTRUNE: Soprano
WALTRAUTE: Mezzo-Soprano
ALBERICH: Baritone
WOGLINDE, Rhinemaiden: Soprano
WELLGUNDE, Rhinemaiden: Mezzo-Soprano
FLOSSHILDE, Rhinemaiden: Mezzo-Soprano
Vassals and Women
Synopsis:
The fourth opera of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. Siegfried gives Brünnhilde the Ring and goes to seek adventure. He comes upon the Hall of the Gibichungs, where Alberich’s son Hagen lives with his half-brother Gunther and half-sister Gutrune. Hagen plans to steal the Ring by giving Siegfried a drug to make him forget Brünnhilde and by offering her to Gunther as a bride and Gutrune to Siegfried. Brünnhilde, believing Siegfried has abandoned her, assists Hagen and Gunther in killing him. In a fight for possession of the Ring, Hagen then kills Gunther. Brünnhilde demands a funeral pyre for Siegfried and leaps into the flames herself. Valhalla, the home of the gods, rises in flames and the Rhinemaidens finally reclaim their Ring.
FIRST NORN: Contralto
SECOND NORN: Mezzo-Soprano
THIRD NORN: Soprano
BRÜNNHILDE: Soprano
SIEGFRIED: Tenor
GUNTHER: Baritone
HAGEN: Bass
GUTRUNE: Soprano
WALTRAUTE: Mezzo-Soprano
ALBERICH: Baritone
WOGLINDE, Rhinemaiden: Soprano
WELLGUNDE, Rhinemaiden: Mezzo-Soprano
FLOSSHILDE, Rhinemaiden: Mezzo-Soprano
Vassals and Women
Synopsis:
The fourth opera of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle. Siegfried gives Brünnhilde the Ring and goes to seek adventure. He comes upon the Hall of the Gibichungs, where Alberich’s son Hagen lives with his half-brother Gunther and half-sister Gutrune. Hagen plans to steal the Ring by giving Siegfried a drug to make him forget Brünnhilde and by offering her to Gunther as a bride and Gutrune to Siegfried. Brünnhilde, believing Siegfried has abandoned her, assists Hagen and Gunther in killing him. In a fight for possession of the Ring, Hagen then kills Gunther. Brünnhilde demands a funeral pyre for Siegfried and leaps into the flames herself. Valhalla, the home of the gods, rises in flames and the Rhinemaidens finally reclaim their Ring.