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Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods

by Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

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  • 2 hours to read
  • 166 chapters
  • Reading level: 5th grade

"Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner is an opera composed in the 1870s. This epic music drama concludes Wagner's four-part Ring cycle, premiering in 1876. The hero Siegfried possesses a powerful ring and pledges his love to the Valkyrie Brünnhilde. But when he encounters the Gibichung court, deception and a magic potion shatter his memory. Schemes unfold involving blood-brotherhood, stolen rings, and disguised identities, setting in motion events that will determine the fate of gods and mortals alike.

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Mime

[_Who has been hammering with a small hammer, stops
working._

Slavery! worry!
Labour all lost!
The strongest sword
That ever I forged,
That the hands of giants
Fitly might wield,
This insolent urchin
For whom it is fashioned
Can snap in two at one stroke,
As if the thing were a toy!

[_Mime throws the sword on the anvil
ill-humouredly, and with his arms akimbo gazes
thoughtfully on the ground._

There is one sword
That he could not shatter:
Nothung's splinters
Would baffle his strength,
Could I but forge
Those doughty fragments
That all my skill
Cannot weld anew.
Could I but forge the weapon,
Shame and toil would win their reward!

[He sinks further back his head bowed in thought.

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Contents

Show all 166 chapters
  1. Front Matter
  2. Mime
  3. Siegfried
  4. Siegfried
  5. Mime
  6. Mime
  7. Siegfried
  8. Siegfried
  9. Mime
  10. Siegfried
  11. Siegfried
  12. Siegfried
  13. Siegfried
  14. Mime
  15. Mime
  16. Siegfried
  17. Mime
  18. Mime
  19. Mime
  20. Mime
  21. Wanderer
  22. Wanderer
  23. Wanderer
  24. Wanderer
  25. Mime
  26. Mime
  27. Mime
  28. Siegfried
  29. Mime
  30. Mime
  31. Mime
  32. Siegfried
  33. Siegfried
  34. Siegfried
  35. Siegfried
  36. Siegfried
  37. Mime
  38. Siegfried
  39. Siegfried
  40. Mime
  41. Siegfried
  42. Siegfried
  43. Fafner
  44. Siegfried
  45. Voice of the Wood-Bird
  46. Siegfried
  47. Alberich
  48. Alberich
  49. Alberich
  50. Siegfried
  51. The Wood-Bird's Voice
  52. Mime
  53. Siegfried
  54. Siegfried
  55. Siegfried
  56. Siegfried
  57. Mime
  58. Siegfried
  59. Siegfried
  60. The Wood-Bird's Voice
  61. Siegfried
  62. The Third Act
  63. Wanderer
  64. Wanderer
  65. Erba
  66. Wanderer
  67. Erba
  68. Wanderer
  69. Wanderer
  70. Wanderer
  71. Wanderer
  72. Siegfried
  73. Siegfried
  74. Wanderer
  75. Wanderer
  76. Siegfried
  77. Siegfried
  78. Siegfried
  79. Siegfried
  80. Siegfried
  81. Siegfried
  82. Siegfried
  83. Siegfried
  84. Siegfried
  85. Siegfried
  86. Siegfried
  87. Siegfried
  88. The First Norn
  89. The Second Norn
  90. The Third Norn
  91. The Second Norn
  92. The Third Norn
  93. The Second Norn
  94. The Three Norns
  95. Siegfried
  96. Siegfried
  97. Siegfried
  98. Both
  99. The First Act
  100. Hagen
  101. Hagen
  102. Hagen
  103. Hagen
  104. Hagen
  105. Hagen
  106. Siegfried
  107. Hagen
  108. Siegfried
  109. Siegfried
  110. Gunther
  111. Siegfried
  112. Siegfried
  113. Gunther
  114. Hagen
  115. Waltraute
  116. Waltraute
  117. Waltraute
  118. Waltraute
  119. Siegfried
  120. Siegfried
  121. Siegfried
  122. Siegfried
  123. Siegfried
  124. The Second Act
  125. Alberich
  126. Alberich
  127. Alberich
  128. Alberich
  129. Siegfried
  130. Gutrune
  131. Hagen
  132. The Vassals
  133. Hagen
  134. Gunther
  135. Gunther
  136. Siegfried
  137. Siegfried
  138. Hagen
  139. Siegfried
  140. Hagen
  141. Gutrune
  142. Siegfried
  143. Siegfried
  144. Siegfried
  145. Hagen
  146. Hagen
  147. Gunther
  148. Hagen
  149. The Three Rhine-Maidens
  150. Siegfried
  151. The Three Rhine-Maidens
  152. Siegfried
  153. The Three Rhine-Maidens
  154. Siegfried
  155. Siegfried
  156. Gunther
  157. Siegfried
  158. Siegfried
  159. Siegfried
  160. Hagen
  161. Siegfried
  162. Hagen
  163. Hagen
  164. Hagen
  165. Gutrune
  166. Gutrune

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This free edition of Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #49507, released 2015-07-22. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Plays/Films/Dramas, Mythology, Legends & Folklore.

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