Götterdämmerung
- Episode aired 1981
- 4h 10m
Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, refers to a war prophesied of the gods that brings with it the end of the world.Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, refers to a war prophesied of the gods that brings with it the end of the world.Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, refers to a war prophesied of the gods that brings with it the end of the world.
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Alberich: I was too weak to fight the dragon, whom Siegfried finally killed, but I bred you, Hagen, for implacable hatred, to avenge me and get the ring, despite Wotan and his mighty brood of Wälsung children. Swear you will, Hagen, my son!
Hagen: I shall have the ring; be patient.
Alberich: Do you swear it to me, Hagen, my son?
Hagen: I swear it to myself. Calm your anxiety.
Alberich: Be faithful, Hagen, my son. My trusty hero! Be faithful. Be faithful, faithful.
- ConnectionsEdited into Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980)
Ah, let's chat about Siegfried: For a "free hero," he's as whiny as Luke Skywalker and as reckless as Harry Potter, and yet these latter two are not as easy to beguile. By today's standards he would never be considered a hero in any way. At best, he's oblivious to the pressing challenges that the world faces. At worst, he's an idiotic numb-skull who won't heed to any good advice, not even his own. If anything, the real hero of this debacle would be Brünnhilde, who in The Valkyrie saves a defenseless girl from a terrible fate, stands up for herself in answering to her considerably peeved super-father, and here returns the Rhinegold to its proper owners.
And yet, despite all of this, when Brünnhilde sings about the end of the gods, it plays the same leitmotif that opens The Rhinegold: Will the world start anew? Will there be new "gods" to take the reins? Is there hope still? What do we know? That's the great things about this opera, and especially this production. In the end, all great works must do one thing to survive the wear of time, of which this opera succeeds: To leave us wondering about what could have been and what could still be.
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- Mar 16, 2005
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- Der Ring des Nibelungen: Dritter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels
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