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Götterdämmerung
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''''' (; Twilight of the Gods'''''), WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the whole work.
Key facts
- Opera.genre_header
- Music drama
- Opera.composer
- Richard Wagner
- Opera.image
- Max Brückner - Otto Henning - Richard Wagner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung - crop.jpg
- Opera.image_upright
- 1.3
- Opera.caption
- Valhalla in flames, in an 1894 depiction by Max Brückner, one of the original set designers
- Opera.translated_name
- Twilight of the Gods
- Opera.librettist
- Richard Wagner
- Opera.language
- German
- Opera.based_on
- Nordic and German legends
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Composition
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Prologue
- ''Scene 1''
- ''Scene 2''
- Act 1
- ''Scene 1''
- ''Scene 2''
- ''Scene 3''
- Act 2
- ''Scene 1''
- ''Scene 2''
- ''Scene 3''
- ''Scene 4''
- ''Scene 5''
- Act 3
- ''Scene 1''
- ''Scene 2''
- ''Scene 3''
- Reactions
- Recordings
- References
- External links
''''' (; Twilight of the Gods'''''), WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the whole work.
The title is a German calque of the Old Norse phrase '', which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war among various beings and gods that ultimately results in the burning, immersion in water, and renewal of the world. As with the rest of the Ring'', Wagner's account diverges significantly from these Old Norse sources.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Götterdämmerung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.