Wagner's Ring Leitmotifs

Gotterdammerung - Index to Acts

This index is for the more detailed synopsis of Gotterdammerung. For the brief synopsis click here.

The SIDE references refer to the classic 1965 London Records recording of Gotterdammerung, George Solti conducting. The below synopses have largely been taken from the libretto from that recording.
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The Opera, in Prelude and three acts, follows:

Prelude - On the Valkyries' Rock


ACT I - Scene 1 - The Hall of the Gibichungs on the banks of the Rhine


ACT I - Scene 2 - The Valkyries' Rock


ACT II - In front of the Gibichungs' Hall


ACT III - Scene 1 - A Wild, Wooded and Rocky Valley on the Rhine


ACT III - Scene 2- The Hall of the Gibichungs

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Credits, Sources, Bibilography, Etc.

This website was prepared for my attendance at Feb 11, 2012, performance of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Gotterdammerung. To prepare for this, the following items were studied, watched, consulted, etc.

Attended Metropolitan Opera's new productions of Das Rheingold (9/10), Walkure (3/11), and Siegfried (10/11

Listened numerous times to 1965 London Records (Decca) recording of Gotterdammerung, once following the Libretto bu German and English.

Watched the Metropolitan Opera’s DVD production (od production) of Gotterdammerung.

DC Comics special four copy issue of Ring of the Niebelungen.

Metropolitan Opera’s, The Ring, (printed version)

Robert Donnington, Wagner’s ‘Ring’ and its Symbols, Faber and Faber, London, 1963.

Deryck Cooke, I Saw The World End, Clarendon Paperbacks, Oxforn University Press, London 1979.

Ring Disc, An Interactive Guide to Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

And Introduction to Dr Ring Des Nibelungen, Decca, The Classic Sound, Deryck Cooke, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir George Solti.

The Leitmotifs of Wagner’s Ring – by Peter Billam, www.pjb.com.au

Leitmotifs in Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Introduction, by Kristian Evensen, see http://www.trell.org/wagner/motifs.html#leitmotifs

Etc.
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