Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner, and premiered at Staatsoper Berlin on June 13, 1913.

   Scenes from Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), by Richard Wagner, and premiered at Staatsoper Berlin on June 13, 1913.

   Götterdämmerung, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). 


 (from left) Lilly Hafgren-Waag as Gudrune, Paul Knuepfer as Hagen, Hermann Wiedemann as Gunter


Act I,  - Siegfried takes the magic drink - 


A performance of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” 1917


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