A leitmotif depicting this location evokes the innocence of Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde (VOHG-lin-duh, VELL-goon-duh, and FLOHS-hill-duh), its three namesake "maidens.
This location appears to emerge from a misty vortex of green light in a 1992 staging by Harry Kupfer. Characters in this location are compared to a "young and good-looking woman" in the Klondike in the ᥸rst chapter of a Marxist analysis written by George Bernard Shaw. A group of characters in this location sing the nonsense syllables "heia jaheia" (HAY-ah ya-HEY-ah) when they are happy and "weiÂ·aÂ·lala leiÂ·a, wallÂ·ala leiÂ·aÂ·lala" (way-ah-"lala" lay-uh "wall"-all-ah lay-a-"lala") when they are sad. In the prelude to an opera, this place is represented by a 6/8 eighth-note E-᥸at arpeggio that crescendos for 136 measures over an E-᥸at drone. A leitmotif depicting this location evokes the innocence of Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde (VOHG-lin-duh, VELL-goon-duh, and FLOHS-hill-duh), its three namesake "maidens." For 10 points, name this river, the source of the "gold" that titles the ᥸rst opera in Wagner's Ring cycle.
This location appears to emerge from a misty vortex of green light in a 1992 staging by Harry Kupfer.
Rhine River [accept Das Rheingold; or Rhinemaidens]