Das Rheingold      Role Voice type Premiere Cast September 22,
1869 (Conductor: Franz Wüllner) Cast in premiere of complete
cycle August 13, 1876 (Conductor: Hans Richter) Wotan bass-
baritone August Kindermann Franz Betz Loge tenor Heinrich Vogl
Heinrich Vogl Fricka mezzo-soprano Sophie Stehle Frederike Grün-
Sadler Freia soprano Henriette Muller Marie Haupt Donner bass-
baritone Karl Samuel Heinrich Eugen Gura Froh tenor Franz
Nachbaur Georg Unger Erda contralto Emma Seehofer Luise Jaide
Alberich baritone Karl Fischer Karl Hill Mime tenor Max
Schlosser Karl Schlosser  Fasolt bass-baritone Toni Petzer
Albert Eilers Fafner bass Kaspar Bausewein Franz von Reichenberg
Woglinde soprano Anna Kaufmann Lilli Lehmann Wellgunde soprano
or mezzo-soprano Therese Vogl Marie Lehmann Flosshilde mezzo-
soprano Wilhelmine Ritter Minna Lammert   Scene 1  Das Rheingold
begins with a 136-bar unmodulating prelude based on the chord of
E flat major that is meant to represent the eternal unchanging
motions of the River Rhine. It is c