That character lays his daughter to sleep atop a mountain encircled by flame, resulting in the Magic Fire Music.
An enormous moving set nicknamed "The Machine" appears in a current Metropolitan Opera production of this work, directed by Robert Lepage. Its first part opens with 136 measures of E-flat major, and one character is known only as "the Wanderer" in its third part. That character lays his daughter to sleep atop a mountain encircled by flame, resulting in the Magic Fire Music. Alberich forges the title object out of gold stolen from the three Rhinemaidens in the first part of this work, entitled Das Rheingold. Its second part features the "Ride of the Valkyries." For 10 points, name this four-opera cycle about Wotan, Brünnhilde, and Siegfried, the masterwork of Richard Wagner.
An enormous moving set nicknamed "The Machine" appears in a current Metropolitan Opera production of this work, directed by Robert Lepage.
Der Ring des Nibelungen [or the Ring cycle; or The Ring of the Nibelung]