https://www.operasb.org/news/the-lasting-novelty-and-dramatic-power-of-wagners-das-rheingold/
Das Rheingold is the shortest of the four Ring music dramas. It takes two and a half hours to perform (but only one hour and fifty minutes in the version used by Opera Santa Barbara); the other three music dramas each last between four and six hours. Das Rheingold is intended as an introduction to The Ring, and so it is briefer and more concise

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JKH: J.K. Holman'sWagner's Ring: ... Das Rheingold. ome of the musical motives that are introduced inDas Rheingold will return in the later operas of the cycle. Limited space on this page does not allow me to continue the table immediately below into the later operas, so I have only shown in which scenes of the first opera the motives appear.

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/wagner/selectedessays/pdf/phillips.pdf
Wotan represents a sort of lawless and dominant masculinity, reveling in its power in Das Rheingold, lamenting in its self-destruction in Siegfried. It is important to recognize that Wotan's essential nature does not change, only his own conception and opinion of this essential nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Rheingold
Das Rheingold (pronunciation ⓘ; The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.

https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/guide-wagners-das-rheingold
Das Rheingold: a guide to the first part of Wagner's Ring Cycle - Classical Music. Das Rheingold explained: here's our guide to the powerful opening instalment in Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle.

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In the still of morning light, Fricka, wife of the Norse god Wotan, paces fretfully. In the distance, she sees a towering castle, built on her husband's orde

https://thelistenersclub.com/2019/01/02/wagners-das-rheingold-prelude-currents-in-e-flat-major/
Das Rheingold, the first opera in Richard Wagner's mythic Ring Cycle, begins as a distant, barely-audible rumble in the dark, murky depths of the orchestra.Entering one by one in cool, overlapping sonic currents, eight horns announce the Ring's expansive, rising "nature" motive.It's a gradual, primal awakening- 136 bars and over four minutes of pure, unending E-flat major.

https://online.ucpress.edu/ncm/article/18/3/277/69260/Review-Wagner-s-Das-Rheingold-Studies-in-Musical
Wagner's Das Rheingold. Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure. ... Gustav Mahler and the Crisis of Jewish Masculinity. Mahler Making Love: Mengelberg's Adagietto. Index for Volume 47 (2023-24) Contributors. Email alerts. Article Activity Alert. Latest Issue Alert. Close Modal.

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/wagner/ringsources/dasrheingold.html
Das Rheingold. In writing Das Rheingold, Wagner wove 3 seemingly unrelated stories to create the prologue for the Ring.The stories all come from the Prose Edda.The three stories are the Andvari story (the "Lay of Regin" in the Elder Edda and "The Otter's Ransom" in the Saga of the Volsungs), the builder story, and the Apples of Idun (in the Prose Edda the stories are not broken up into

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Richard Wagner1813-1883. Der Ring des Nibelungen, also called The Ring cycle, is a cycle of four epic music dramas, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. Das Rheingold is the first of the four operas in Wagner's ring.

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Abstract. On 11 November 1851, Wagner completed the initial sketches of what would become Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, expanding the drama from two operas in which the central figure was the hero Siegfried, to four operas in which the central figure became the God Wotan.Although much work has been done on the drafts of the Ring cycle, particularly by Daniel Coren, Stewart Spencer and Warren

https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productions/das-rheingold/2024-11-03-1800-14706
In Das Rheingold, the "eve" of Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen, the course is set for the apocalypse. It will be unleashed by two entirely opposing worldviews exploding into one another. The tragedy of Alberich, who, being mortal, believes he must take everything within his own lifetime.

https://www.metopera.org/Season/On-Demand/opera/?upc=811357015742
Das Rheingold. The great Hans Hotter, in his Met debut season, is magnificent as Wotan in this memorable broadcast of the prologue to Wagner's Ring cycle. He leads an extraordinary cast that also includes Margaret Harshaw as Wotan's wife, Fricka, Set Svanholm as a true heldentenor Loge, the demi-god of fire, Lawrence Davidson as the evil

https://www.jstor.org/stable/831220
This document represents a substantial part of Richard Wagner's instrumentation. draft for Das Rheingold. It was purchased by John H. Scheide of Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1927 and is now the property of his son, William H. Scheide, whose collection is housed as a separate but adjoining unit of the Princeton.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-01-27/gustavo-dudamel-la-phil-frank-gehry-wagner-ring-rheingold
Jan. 27, 2024 9:42 AM PT. Los Angeles has little history with Wagner's four-opera "Ring" cycle, his epic on how to save the world from conniving gods, power mongers and hoarders of wealth

https://www.operasense.com/leitmotivs-das-rheingold-opera-of-the-month/
Opera Sense recommended recordings of Das Rheingold: A leitmotiv is a recurring musical passage that is associated with a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Most often they are relatively short melodies, but they could also be chord progressions or rhythms. They were central to Richard Wagner's creative process and he is considered the

https://www.opera-arias.com/wagner/das-rheingold/
About the opera Das Rheingold. Uncompleted operas Das Rheingold (help·info) ('The Rhine Gold') is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four

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Der Ring des Nibelungen, WWV 86 (1848-74) Das Rheingold, WWV 86A (Vorabend) Die Walküre, WWV 86B (Erster Tag) Siegfried, WWV 86C (Zweiter Tag) Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Dritter Tag) Late operas (1857-82) Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96. Parsifal, WWV 111.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYW49Ru_F4
Opera North's acclaimed concert staging of Wagner's Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, June 2016. The Ring begins with music that evokes the very dawn of time.

https://mnopera.org/season/fall-season/das-rheingold/
Streaming On-Demand: November 14-28, 2020 Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. Gods, gold, and giants—now in 3D! Be a part of the action and experience opera like you never have before with this 3D version of Wagner's Das Rheingold, Minnesota Opera's critically acclaimed 2016 production of the beginning of the legendary Ring Cycle.Put on your 3D glasses and get ready to join an epic

https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/furtwangler-wagner-das-rheingold
Richard Wagner. 19 August 2022. Available as. Digital. Featured artists: Wolfgang Windgassen, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma Della RAI, Ferdinand Frantz, Ira Malaniuk. Listen & Buy. Over the next few weeks we will re-release the iconic complete Ring recorded in 1953 by Wilhelm Furtwängler, live from the studios of the Italian radio (one act was

https://wagnerdisco.net/arn/der-ring-des-nibelungen/1930-1959/1956-knappertsbusch-bayreuth/
A production by Wieland Wagner (1951) This is the second Ring cycle from the Bayreuth festival 1956, the first one was not broadcasted. 2003-07-13 Dutoit Buenos Aires. 2003-07-25 M Albrecht Bayreuth. 2003-12-05 Ozawa Wien.

https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/local-arts/edmonton-opera-wagners-das-rheingold
Peter Hinton-Davis, directing Das Rheingold at the Maclab Theatre for Edmonton Opera, May 28, 29, 31 & June 1. Photo credit Adanya Dunn edm Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products