#the ring of the nibelung

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The Ring of the Nibelung - art by Arthur Rackham (1910-1911)

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Wotan's farewell to Brunhilde by Ferdinand Leeke

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Is she onstage during a production of Wagner's "Der Ring Des Nibelungen"?

This is one of those requests where the perfect image for it is just right there and i appreciate it so much

[thebeautifulbook]

THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE by Richard Wagner. (London: Heinemann, 1910) Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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[nalyra-dreaming]

Worth mentioning (thanks to my cache of niche trivia) that the music playing is the prelude from Wagner's Rheingold. It is famously a longass E-flat chord meant to symbolize the depths of the river Rhine, as well as the creation of the Earth--a beginning, an epic in embryonic form.

I'm sure I'm person #42594 to have noticed this, but hey.

It hadn't clocked in with me, but you gotta give Rolin Jones all the kudos:

Das Rheingold gives the background to the events that drive the main dramas of the cycle. It recounts Alberich's theft of the Rhine gold after his renunciation of love; his fashioning of the all-powerful ring from the gold and his enslavement of the Nibelungs; Wotan's seizure of the gold and the ring, to pay his debt to the giants who have built his fortress Valhalla; Alberich's curse on the ring and its possessors; Erda's warning to Wotan to forsake the ring; the early manifestation of the curse's power after Wotan yields the ring to the giants; and the gods' uneasy entry into Valhalla, under the shadow of their impending doom.

src. Thank you for pointing it out.

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„WALKÜRE“ R. Wagner / SECOND and THIRD ACT

Some Brünnhildes

Amalie Materna as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, 1889

Pauline Mailhac as Brünnhilde; Karlsruhe, 1891

Ellen Gulbranson as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1902

Lucienne Breval as Brünnhilde; Paris, ca. 1900

Anna Bahr-Mildenburg als Brünnhilde; Vienna, ca. 1900

Laure Berge as Brünnhilde; Bruxelles, ?

Elise Beuer als Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Olga Blomé as Brünnhilde; Bayreuth, 1924

Lina Boeling as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Helena Braun as Brünnhilde; Munich, ?

Gertrud Bindernagel as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Berthe Briffaux as Brünnhilde; Antwerpen, 1932

Lotte Burck as Brünnhilde; Milan, 1932

Sara Cesar as Brünnhilde; Rome, 1920

Sofie Cordes-Palm as Brünnhilde; ?, ?

Erna Denera as Brünnhilde; Berlin, ?

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Johannes Gehrts - The Norns, 1889.

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Götterdämmerung

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Check out what my sister got me at Barnes & Noble!

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Kinuko Y. Craft’s posters for the Dallas Opera’s production The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner

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Siegmund and Sieglinde in Manga & Comicbook Adaptations of Wagner's Ring: Masterlist

Alice

Azumi

Djief, Jarry, et al.

Ikeda & Miyamoto

Kane & Thomas

Russell

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Siegfried Fighting with the Dragon by Achille Beltrame

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DC Comics started a four issue limited series based on the Richard Wagner Opera titled The Ring of the Nibelung. The first issue has a cover date of December, 1989. The adaptation was made by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane. ("Book One: The Rhinegold" The Ring of the Nibelung 1#, DC Comic Event)

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Knight of Swords. Art by Mike Zairos Pifano, from Tarot CDH.

Sigfried

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„GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG“ R. WAGNER

„HEIL DIR, SIEGFRIED, SIEGENDES LICHT!

HEIL, STRAHLENDES LEBEN!“

Some Siegfrieds.

Ernst Kraus as Siegfried; ?, ?

Theo Strack as Siegfried; ?, ?

Erik Schmedes as Siegfried; Vienna, ?

Heinrich Knote as Siegfried; Munich, ?

Carl Burrian as Siegfried; Dresden, ?

Fritz Vogelstrom as Siegfried; Dresden, 1916

Otto Lähnemann as Siegfried; Leipzig /Braunschweig, ?

Max Merter Teer Mer as Siegfried; Zurich, ?

Richard Kubla as Siegfried; Vienna (Volksoper), ?

Alois Pennarini as Siegfried; ?, ?

Dr. Julius Pölzer as Siegfried; Munich, 1932

Josef Schöffel as Siegfried; Karlsruhe, ?

Rudolf Ritter as Siegfried; Bayreuth, 1924

Lauritz Melchior as Siegfried; London, 1929 (picture from Bayreuth)

Hans Tänzler as Siegfried; Berlin, ?

Marius Verdier as Siegfried; Lyon, ?

Jacques Urlus as Siegfried; ?, ?

Fritz Windgassen as Siegfried; Stuttgart, ?

Dr. Horst Wolf as Siegfried; Coburg, ?

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Hermann Hendrich. Set for the opera 'Rheintöchter' (The Rhine Maidens) by Richard Wagner, created in 1869.