THE RING
OF THE NIBLUNG
THE RHINEGOLD: PRELUDE
THE VALKYRIE: FIRST DAY OF THE TRILOGY
SIEGFRIED: SECOND DAY OF THE TRILOGY
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS:THIRD DAY OF THE TRILOGY
SIEGFRIED & THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
BY
RICHARD WAGNER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
TRANSLATED BY MARGARET ARMOUR
LONDON WILLIAM-HEINEMANN
NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PACE & Co
1911
CONTENTS
SIEGFRIED
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
PRELUDE
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Nothung! Nothung!
Conquering sword!plate 1
Mime at the anvilplate 2
Mime and the infant Siegfriedplate 3
"And there I learned
What love was like"plate 4
Siegfried sees himself in the streamplate 5
Mime finds the mother of Siegfried in the forestplate 6
"In dragon's form
Fafner now watches the hoard"plate 7
Mime and the Wandererplate 8
The forging of Nothungplate 9
Siegfried kills Fafnerplate 10
"The hot blood burns like fire!"plate 11
The dwarfs quarrelling over the body of Fafnerplate 12...