Götterdämmerung Dusk of the Gods

Music-drama in a prologue and three acts, words and music by Richard Wagner. Produced, Bayreuth, August 17, 1876.

New York, Metropolitan Opera House, January 25, 1888, with Lehmann (Brünnhilde), Seidl-Kraus (Gutrune), Niemann (Siegfried), Robinson (Gunther), and Fischer (Hagen). Other performances at the Metropolitan Opera House have had, among others, Alvary and Jean de Reszke as Siegfried and Édouard de Reszke as Hagen.

Characters

Siegfried Tenor

Gunther Baritone

Alberich Baritone

Hagen Bass

Brünnhilde Soprano

Gutrune Soprano

Waltraute Mezzo-Soprano

First, Second, and Third Norn Contralto, Mezzo-Soprano, and Soprano

Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde Sopranos and Mezzo-Soprano

Vassals and Women.

Time—Legendary.

Place—On the Brünnhilde-Rock; Gunther's castle on the Rhine; wooded district by the Rhine.