The Ring of the Nibelung

Contextual Studies Year 1:
Illustration/Illustration & Animation
Richard Wagner
The Ring of the Nibelung
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Created 1848-1876
Das Rheingold
Die Walkure
Siegfried
Gotterdammerung
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1910/11
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The Rhine daughters - guardians of the Rhinegold
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Rhine daughters tease Alberich
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Alberich renounces love and seizes the Rhinegold
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Alberich takes the Rhinegold back to Nibelheim
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Freia goddess 0f Youth & Beauty - the price of Walhalla
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Loge hears of Rhinegold from Rhine daughters
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Fasolt & Fafnir take Freia hostage
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The gods begin to age
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Alberich is overlord of the Nibelungs
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Alberich forces Mime to make the Tarnhelm
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Alberich puts on the Tarnhelm & becomes invisible
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The Nibelung horde is piled up to hide Freia
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Erda warns Wotan to give up the ring
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Fafnir Kills Fasolt, takes the treasure away and using the
Tarnhelm becomes a dragon
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Fafner becomes a dragon
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Donner creates the rainbow bridge to Walhalla
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Rhine daughters beg the gods to return the Rhinegold
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Sieglinde discovers Siegmund in her house
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Siegmund draws Nothung from the tree
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Brunhilde, Wotan’s favourite daughter
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Freia demands Siegmund loses the fight with Hunding
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Brunhilde saves Sieglinde
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Wrathful Wotan returns to punish Brunhilde
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Mime finds Sieglinde in the forest
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Mime tries to forge Nothung
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Siegfried kills Fafnir the dragon
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Siegfried tastes the dragon’s blood
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Siegfried finds the sleeping Brunhilde
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Hagen’s plan’s Siegfried’s murder
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Rhine daughters ask Siegfried to return the Rhinegold
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Brunhilde’s immolation
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Rhine daughters reclaim the Rhinegold & drown Hagen
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