The Opera a Sketch of the Development of Opera With Full Descriptions of All W
The Opera a Sketch of the Development of Opera With Full Descriptions of All W
R a Richard Alexander Streatfeild
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Briinnhilde now comes in, sorrowful but calm. She understands the whole story of Siegfried's unwitting treachery, and has pardoned him in his death. She thrusts the weep- ing Gutrune aside, claiming for herself the sole right of a wife's tears. The vassals build a funeral pyre, and place the body of Siegfried upon it. Brunnhilde takes the ring from his finger, and with her own hand fires the wood. She then leaps upon her horse Grane, and with one bound rides into the towering flames. The Rhine,... which has over- flowed its banks, now invades the hall. Hagen dashes into the flood in search of the ring, but the Rhine-maidens have been before him. Flosshilde, who has rescued the ring from the ashes of the pyre, holds it exultingly aloft, while Wellgunde and Woglinde drag Hagen down to the depths. Mean- while a ruddy glow has overspread the heavens behind. Valhalla is burning, and the gods in calm resignation await their final annihilation. The old order yields, giving place to the new. The ancient heaven, sapped by the lust of gold, has crumbled, and a new world, founded upon self-sacrificing WAGNER'S LATER WORKS 211 love, rises from its ashes to usher in the era of freedom.
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