The prologue has an orchestral interlude depicting a sunrise interrupt a scene of a frantic descent to the earth in search of a broken rope.
The prologue has an orchestral interlude depicting a sunrise interrupt a scene of a frantic descent to the earth in search of a broken rope. The other key scene of its prologue sees its hero receive the horse Grane as he begins his journey to the castle of the Gibichungs. Later, his lover betrays him by revealing that his weak spot is his back, but recants and prepares a funeral pyre for him after he is speared to death by Hagen. The opera ends with an epic flooding of the Rhine and the image of Valhalla in flames. FTP, name this final opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
The prologue has an orchestral interlude depicting a sunrise interrupt a scene of a frantic descent to the earth in search of a broken rope.
Die {Gotterdammerung} or The {Twilight of the Gods}