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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)

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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	comment	Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung"Translation note this is sometimes mistranslated as the plural "Nibelungs", but the singular is correct — the Nibelung referred to is Alberich. The name "Nibelung" (literally, "mist-descendant") refers to the race of dwarfs to which Alberich belongs. Since German is an inflected language, the possessive singular of this particular noun requires in the ending "-en".) is an epic cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner (hence the alternative term, the "Ring Cycle," which is sometimes applied to the whole).note Wagner himself eschewed the term "opera" as applied to these works, preferring to refer to them as "Bühnenfestspiele", "stage-festival-plays"; the term "music-drama," though also rejected by Wagner himself, is generally preferred by his followers. The cycle premiered at the Wagner Festival Theater in Bayreuth, August 13th-17th, 1876, though the first two sections of the work had already appeared at the Munich Court Opera in 1869 and 1870.Der Ring des Nibelungen consists of: Prologue: Das Rheingold (The Rhine-Gold) Day I: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Day II: Siegfried Day III: Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)note this is sometimes stated, especially in older references, as Die Götterdämmerung, "The Twilight of the Gods", but Wagner never used the article in his references to the work.For a recap of the plot, consult our synopsis page.The fundamental theme of Der Ring des Nibelungen is the opposition of Power to Love. Wagner's original intention in the work was suggesting that the plutocratic society of 19th century Europe could be fundamentally improved by rejecting the desire for the domination of othersnote principally through money, which is why the Ring of Power is forged from the Gold of the Rhine and embracing instead redemption through universal love. As for the means of achieving this, Wagner originally leaned towards anarchism and social revolution (Siegfried's single-handedly bringing down the rule of the gods and burning Valhalla is a barely disguised metaphor for the anarchist destruction of the feudal/capitalist establishment in Europe); however, as his philosophy developed, he came to reject love as leading to social improvement, and suggested instead that the only possible "redemption" would come through a compassionate rejection of all personal desires, including the desire for societal amelioration, to achieve a Buddhistic Nirvana — or what Wagner called the „wunsch- und wahnlos, heilig Wahlland, the desire-free, illusion-free, holy chosen Land."As the vehicle for this symbolic drama, Wagner radically adapted the ancient legend of Siegfried the dragon-slayer, as it was preserved in ancient German and especially Scandinavian sources, such as the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga, Thridiks saga of Bern, the Poetic Edda, and the Prose Edda, as well as other, lesser works. He also found much suggestive detail in the scholarly writings of antiquarians such as Simrock, Rühs, and The Brothers Grimm. Wagner composed the text in the style of ancient Germanic poetry, in the alliterative verse form called Stabreim, as, for example, in Walküre:Wagner shows a tendency in his verse to employ an excess of superlatives ("Deepest love’s holiest need") and unusual or archaic words and constructions („neidlich”, "emulable" (?); “der Recken Zwist “of war-men the strife", and so on), which gave his text rather a stilted sound even in the over-blown literary German of his time. Dramatically, however, his text is masterly in its construction; his situations highly suggestive, and his characterization vivid and deep in psychological insight.The staging of the work proved problematic. Wagner had the typical Teutonic and 19th century fascination with history, and instructed his scenery and costume designers to emulate as closely as possible the Ancient Germanic setting of the original legend.note which, oddly enough, despite the cycle's legendary setting, can be dated historically pretty exactly to the year 437 A.D. by the destruction of the Rhine-based kingdom of Gunthaharius (Wagner’s Gunther) by the Huns Unfortunately, that particular period was (and still is) a particularly obscure one in terms of social history, and Carl Döpler’s designs, though in accordance with the best knowledge of the time, were largely based on ceremonial costumes, in some cases extrapolated backward from much later sources.note The effect is somewhat like trying to imagine the civilian costume of George Washington from looking at the dress uniform of George S. Patton. Hence the rather silly looking Horny Vikings costumesnote which Wagner’s wife Cosima famously compared to "Red Indian chiefs" and settings that still inform most people's mental image of the Ring. Furthermore, the spectacular scenic effects that Wagner intended, his dwarfs and dragons, gods and nixes, his bear and rams and serpent and ravens and wood-bird, even his rainbows, mists, rivers, caverns, and mountains, have afforded nightmarish problems from the very earliest presentations of the work. (Legend has it that the dragon’s neck was unavailable in the first performances, having been sent by mistake, not to Bayreuth in Bavaria, but to Beirut in Lebanon.) Nevertheless, Wagner’s dramatic technique was highly influential, to the extent that it colored the general public’s very conception of what "opera" is.Note that it is largely Carl Emil Döpler's costume designs for the Valkyries in the 1876 Bayreuth production of Wagner's Ring that has established the popular image of the fat, horn-helmeted, breast-plated operatic soprano, though it may be noted that Döpler's Valkyries actually wear winged helmets. The common expression "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings" may well derive from productions of Götterdämmerung in which Brünnhilde sings a lengthy monologue just before the conclusion (the actual last words are those of the villain Hagen) or from Tristan und Isolde which actually concludes with a lengthy monologue from the opera's heroine. (The lady in question is generally... junoesque, because the huge soprano voice required to sail over a Wagnerian orchestra is not often found in petite women.) In both operas, the hero has died in the previous scene, so an uninformed audience member might well have assumed the opera would be over at that point.Most important, of course, is Wagner's music. In the Ring Wagner's Leitmotivnote Wagner invented neither the use of the Leitmotiv nor the name; the symbolical use of melodies or melodic phrases can be traced back to The Middle Ages, and the word itself was invented by Wagner's disciple, Hans von Wolzogen, to describe what Wagner himself called "melodic moments of feeling." method is used in its most developed and sophisticated form. The score is by no means a simple patchwork, with (say) a "Wotan" motivenote Note that "motive" is the Anglicization of Wolzogen’s „Motiv“ preferred by Wagnerian commentators from George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman up to Deryck Cooke, rather than the Frenchified motif sounding every time Wotan appears on-stage. Rather, it is a symphonic development of fundamental musical ideas, varied, combined, split, and developed in a complicated psychological counterpoint to the symbolism of the stage action. Frequently the music reveals the unspoken thoughts or feelings of a character; equally frequently, it comments ironically on the action. For the rest, Wagner’s music is characterized by the preeminence of harmony, making rich use of chromaticism in the service of mood-setting and picture painting — hence his importance as a dramatic composer, and his influence on later composers, particularly for the cinema, which has lasted to this day.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: Several of Wagner's Leitmotive (e.g., Siegfried's horncall) have the character of fanfares. At Bayreuth, certain motifs are played as fanfares from the balcony of the Festspielhaus to announce the beginning of an act.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Mime, though some directors try to soften his character considerably in modern productions.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Where it also induces Easy Amnesia in Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: What the Ring cycle is all about. The characters are divided and scattered between their desires and duties. Die Walküre especially tackles this well, since Brünnhilde states that she is serving Wotan's deepest desires of his heart (helping Siegmund and Sieglinde) while disobeying his commands (kill Siegmund) which he is forced to do by Fricka. Wotan is forced to punish Brünnhilde and remove her from the Valkyries, even if she is his favorite daughter.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Wagner's Nibelung dwarves (particularly Mime) have been claimed as Fantasy Counterpart Cultures of the Jews. While this is not entirely far-fetched (Gustav Mahler, both a Jew and an admirer of Wagner, accepted Mime, at least, as a Semitic caricature), it is a theory that can be pressed too far. Others have pointed to the noticeable physical resemblance between Mime and Richard Wagner himself. Ironically, in the Decca Ring (the first complete recording of the cycle), Gerhard Stolze's snarling delivery of some of Mime's verses sometimes sounds as if Adolf Hitler were singing.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: As Deryck Cooke remarks, "Those who derive amusement from making fun of The Ring will be delighted to realise that one of Wotan’s problems is 'in-law trouble.'"
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: As with Alberich, Hunding, and Hagen. On the other hand, the well-intentioned, if weak, Gunther is a baritone, and on the other other hand, Mime is a squeaky tenor.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Alberich and Mime. However, Mime can easily come across as too pathetic to be evil.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: In Siegfried, after the eponymous hero kills Fafner, he can understand the forest bird's song telling him to take the ring and helm. He doesn't know what they really are, but it keeps them out of the hands of Alberich and Mime. (Too bad that the ring is an Artifact of Doom...)
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_19bec249	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_19bec249	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis: An astonishing number of Wagnerians have been attracted to his music via Apocalypse Now and Looney Tunes cartoons.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Or you could even call it a Götterdämmerung.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Loge is the God of Fire (and Trickery) and Wotan summons him to create the enchanted flames to surround Brünnhilde.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1cda48c5	type	Invisible Jerkass
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1cda48c5	comment	Invisible Jerkass: Alberich uses the magic of the Tarnhelm to turn invisble, and the first thing he does is start beating Mime.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Hagen kills Siegfried by spearing him in the back.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Hagen in his original appearances. He may have killed Siegfried (in the Nibelungenlied, though in the Volsung Saga he and Gunther seem equally responsible for telling their younger brother to do so), but he is ultimately loyal to Gunther. In Wagner, Hagen is acting out of desire for the Ring and ends up killing Gunther.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2410cc23	type	The Time of Myths
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2410cc23	comment	The Time of Myths: The setting for the Ring Cycle.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Demigod: Loge stands out as the only character in Rheingold who doesn't immediately pick up the Idiot- and/or Villain Ball upon coming into proximity of the ring, instead trying to convince his master to return it to the Rhinemaidens and break the curse.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_29718d62	type	Accent Adaptation
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_29718d62	comment	Accent Adaptation: Of Germanic (thus including Norse) mythology. Except for "Erda," Wagner adapted attested German names for the gods rather than using any of the various actual historic forms: thus Wotan (Wodan, Wuotan, Odin — possibly meaning "the stirring, the furious, the tempest, the wind"); Fricka and Freia (Frea, Fria, Frouwa, Frikka, Frigg and Freyja — "the Free Woman, the Lady" — originally doublets for each other) (Wagner also uses her alternative name "Holda," (modern German holde) — "the Gracious Woman"); Froh (Fro, Frao, Frawaz, Frey — "the Lord," originally a masculine doublet of Frigg/Freyja), which means "glad" in modern German (though the older meaning is fossilized in words like Frohnleichnam, "the Lord's Body," i.e., Corpus Christi); and Erda (Jörð) is Old High German (Modern German "Erde") — "earth."
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2a3e0069	comment	On the other hand, the Prunhilt of the Nibelungenlied is decidedly a woman of tremendous athletic attainments, though it is implied that these have made her only more attractive.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2b726e19	type	Ring of Power
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2b726e19	comment	Ring of Power: The central symbol of Der Ring des Nibelungen is an inevitably corrupting, incorrigibly evil ring inscribed with flaming runes.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: Actually occurs in Wagner's sources for the Ring, but softened by him into a temporary exchange of identities by Siegfried and Gunther; Brünnhilde's certainty that this trope has been invoked leads to the disaster that follows.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: Or sometimes Willfully Mythtaken. Wagner has enraged folklorists from his own time to the present for adapting ancient myths and legends with abandon, and in the process, ousting the originals from the minds of most of the public. The greatest example is how the cycle is a composite of three entirely unrelated myths — the building of Valhalla's walls (with Fafner and Fasolt being composites of Fafnir and Hreiðmar, the original recipients of the Ring, with the unnamed giant who built the walls and didn't get paid in the original story), the story of the Andvaranaut (which originally only had the power to help the wearer find gold, and was stolen by Loki as reparations for accidentally killing Hreiðmar's son in the form of an otter), a part of the Volsunga Saga, and Ragnarök (the Norse apocalypse, which was not caused by Siegfried's death or Odin's carving a spear off the World Tree).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_30f16d3f	type	The Punishment
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_30f16d3f	comment	The Punishment: Alberich, in the Ring, must renounce all love in order to steal the magical Rhine-Gold that will make him ruler of the world.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the older versions of the story Gunther and Hagen are killed fighting Attila the Hun. Attila the Hun doesn't at all appear, the latter part of the story excised save for Gunther, Gutrune and Hagen all dying.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Alberich's cruel mistreatment of the enslaved Nibelungs in Das Rheingold is probably there to convince the viewer that Alberich is evil, so we don't feel sorry for him when the gods steal his ring. Hagen's mockery of Gutrune after Siegfried's death (in Götterdämmerung) seems pretty uncalled for.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Early in the composition of Siegfried's Todt, which eventually became Götterdämmerung, Wagner intended for the opera to be performed three times in a temporary wooden theatre. Then, all the music and the theatre would be burned. Thankfully, this didn't happen.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3687d605	type	Rapid Aging
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3687d605	comment	Rapid Aging: Freia tends the orchard that grows the Golden Apples, which give the gods their immortality. When she is dragged off by Fasolt and Fafner, the remaining gods grow visibly older (except for the demi-god Loge, who comments on what is happening).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_371fdcd1	type	Royal Bastard
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_371fdcd1	comment	Royal Bastard: Hagen is the illegitimate son of Alberich and queen Grimhild, the mother of king Gunther.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Wotan tries to manipulate Siegmund into killing Fafner and getting the ring to Wotan by his own free will. Doesn't work. In fact, it backfires on all the Walküre cast except Fricka.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_39af206f	type	Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_39af206f	comment	Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Mime raised up Siegfried to be his champion, to kill Fafner and win for him Fafner's treasure.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The Ring of the Nibelung. Mainly because Alberich cursed all those who would have it after him, but not only due to that. The misery and hatred that it brings is implicit in the very act of making it, since the condition for doing so is the renunciation of Love (in the broader sense that includes all affections). Further, it may be assumed that any item that gives its bearer power over the whole world will end up with a pretty bloody trail behind it of those who sought it out.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The first act and a half of Siegfried is spent building up to what ought to be an epic battle between the fearless Siegfried and Fafner the dragon. The actual fighting only goes on for one minute before Siegfried runs Nothung through Fafner's heart and is set to rather perfunctory music.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: Siegmund and Sieglinde in Die Walküre.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: For Brünnhilde, it is not enough that her husband, Siegfried, completely forgot her due to a love potion and married Gutrune, he also kidnapped her in the form of Gunther, and took her wedding Ring.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: In Walküre, Brünnhilde gives the fragments of Siegmund's sword to Sieglinde; Siegfried duly forges them anew into a sword in his eponymous opera.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: In line with his other depictions, Donner is depicted with an enchanted hammer, though the main use is opening the gates to Valhalla.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Mime is victimized by both Alberich and Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword: The weaponless Siegmund voices this sentiment when he sings his aria „Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater". At the end of the act he pulls Nothung, which had been planted there by Wotan, out of the ash tree that supports Hunding's roof.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Donner, god of Thunder and Lighting.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4fd47ee6	type	Dark Age Europe
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4fd47ee6	comment	Dark Age Europe: Though really more The Time of Myths. The "Centennial Ring" averted this by updating the setting to the Industrial Revolution. The forges and dark mines of the Nibelungs became a mine-shaft and factory setting, based on the fact that the Ring cycle was written in the 19th century Industrial Age.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: If everything went according to one of Wagner's original plans, before the single opera expanded into a four-part cycle, it was meant to be staged in a temporary wooden building that was to be set ablaze at the story's end.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: Notably, "Als junge Liebe" in Walküre.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_51d9540e	type	Flames of Love
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_51d9540e	comment	Flames of Love: Siegfried and Brünnhilde meet and fall in love against a backdrop of fire (the Ring of Fire in which she had been enclosed) and their story also ends in fire, with them being reunited in death on a funeral pyre.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_520c77b4	type	Ignored Confession
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_520c77b4	comment	Ignored Confession: In the final act of Götterdämmerung, Gutrune confesses that she created the Love Potion that made Siegfried forget Brünnhilde. However, Brünnhilde doesn't seem to hear this (or be able to register it) and continues wondering why Siegfried had betrayed her.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Except for Alberich and Mime, the Nibelung dwarfs are pretty much Punch-Clock Mooks.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Das Rheingold begins with the Rhinemaidens singing their chorus as they guard the gold at the bottom of the Rhine. Guess how Götterdämmerung ends.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55a28534	type	Fearless Fool
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55a28534	comment	Fearless Fool: Siegfried has never learned what fear is until he meets Brünnhilde. (No, you're not supposed to laugh.)
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Brünn-who-lde?
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55c9afee	type	Point-and-Click Game
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55c9afee	comment	There exists two Point and Click Adventure Game adaptations of the opera, both of which are Abandonware. The first game, Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen, covers the first half of the opera and was released in 1998 while its sequel, Ring II: Twilight of the Gods, covered the second half and was released in 2003. While there are many differences between the games and the opera, the main difference from the opera is that these adaptations are set in a Science Fiction setting.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: Götterdämmerung culminates with Siegfried's death, prompting Brünnhilde to make a Heroic Sacrifice that burns down Walhall with all the gods and heroes inside.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5740acf7	type	Chickification
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5740acf7	comment	Chickification: Threatened by Wotan as a horrible fate for the Valkyries; Brünnhilde comes to embrace it.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Siegfried succeeds in reforging Nothung, for the very reason that he knows not fear. Literally. Never mind that Mime with all manner of skill in smithery can't do it, Siegfried can somehow do it just from having complete ignorance of the concept of fear.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5a98b9af	type	Valkyries
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5a98b9af	comment	Valkyries: It is Wagner's version that most people think of when imagining these mythological "Gatherers of the Slain" — however, it is worth noting that unlike the popular conception, Wagner's original Valkyries did not wear horned helmets, but winged ones; did not ride winged horses, though they were aerial ones; and, though intended to be rather manly, ungentle women, were intended to be statuesque in the 19th century manner, rather than just plain fat.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Wotan.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5f45ab38	type	Space Jews
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5f45ab38	comment	Space Jews: The Nibelungs have been claimed by some to be stand-ins for the Jews. See Does This Remind You of Anything? above.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Invoked by Hunding in Walküre with the words „Heilig ist mein Herd — heilig sei dir mein Haus!" ("Sacred is my hearth — sacred to thee be my house!") Despite realising Siegmund is the man who was hunting for killing members of his clan he says he will let him stay the night. Then Siegmund elopes with Hunding's Wife.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5fe81fea	type	Cursed Item
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_5fe81fea	comment	Cursed Item: Alberich uses the Rhine-gold's own power to curse the ring he made out of it before surrendering it along with other treasures Loge and Wotan force him to give to Fasolt and Fafner as payment for building Walhall. The curse immediately takes effect as Fafner murders Fasolt to take the ring and riches for himself. Then, years later, Siegfried slays Fafner (who had turned himself into a dragon), takes the ring and ends up betrayed and killed himself.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62bf426d	type	Romanticism
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62bf426d	comment	The leitmotives work as the equivalent of the Greek chorus of old. Advances in composition and music during the Romanticism era lead Richard Wagner to develop this musical technique. Wagner was a Fan Boy of old Greek dramas, especially those of Aeschylus. Thus, he devized a way to make his operas a seamless and endless flow of music, in which commentary about the events happening on stage (much like in the Greek chorus of old) was done by recurring musical phrases: the leitmotives.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62d4ceb3	type	Mood Motif
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62d4ceb3	comment	Mood Motif: One of the basic functions of the Leitmotive.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: How Hagen summons the vassals in Götterdämmerung
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Alberich seems to fulfill this function for Hagen in Götterdämmerung.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_66583b22	type	Weapons Breaking Weapons
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_66583b22	comment	Weapons Breaking Weapons: This happens twice. In Die Walküre, Wotan intervenes in the duel between Siegmund and Hunding by destroying Siegmund's sword Notung with his spear, allowing Hunding to kill the disarmed Siegmund. In Siegfried, Siegfried uses his reforged sword Notung to break Wotan's spear as he attacks Wotan in revenge for his father's death, foreshadowing the doom of the gods in the following opera.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Alberich gets one when he steals the Rhine-gold from the maidens.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Siegfried is rather... excitable.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: The Ring operas rank among the favorites for characters to attend, as in Nicholas Meyers' Sherlock Holmes novel, The Seven Per Cent Solution (Siegfried).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: In the Ring, though Sieglinde is rescued from Hunding, and Brünnhilde from the Ring of Fire, Sieglinde's love does not save Siegmund, and Brünnhilde's actually leads to Siegfried's death, and both the ladies (like everyone except the Rhine-daughters, and possibly the Nibelungs) die under rather unpleasant circumstances. (A monologue in an early version of the text, in which Brünnhilde specifically invoked The Power of Love before burning herself to death, was deliberately cut by the composer because it no longer represented his philosophical ideas.)
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: The sword in the ash tree, which can be only pulled out by Siegmund, as he does in Die Walküre Act I.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: As when Siegmund ("Victorious Protection") calls himself „Wehwalt der Wölfing — ("Sorrow-ruled, son of Wolfe").
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6dc10d3a	type	Ultimate Blacksmith
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6dc10d3a	comment	Ultimate Blacksmith: Alberich, Mime, and Siegfried all have claims on the part.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Brunnhilde's look from the original production— a large woman in Viking-like armor with a helmet, a round shield, and a spear— has become visual shorthand for the entire genre of Opera, especially in a Shallow Parody.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Mime actually tries some of the guilt-tripping this trope is associated with on Siegfried ("And for my worry is this all my wage,/that the passionate boy only hates me/and scolds?"), though it doesn't work. This may be the most benevolent Jewish stereotype Wagner invokes.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Wotan feels this way with his wife Fricka. Their introductory scene is Fricka waking him up while he's fast asleep. This aspect is closer to Greek Myth (Zeus and Hera) than Norse myth.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Siegfried ain't the sharpest sword in the armory.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_74d4ad25	type	Baritone of Strength
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_74d4ad25	comment	Baritone of Strength: Or Bass-baritone. Alberich, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner, Donner, Hunding, Hagen — Gunther is the only weakling at the deep end of the pool.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: At the beginning of Die Walküre, Sieglinde is married to Hunding. A mysterious stranger arrives. The mysterious stranger and Sieglinde fall in love, and Sieglinde drugs her brutish husband. At the end of the act, it is revealed that the mysterious stranger is Siegmund, and he is Sieglinde's long-lost brother. The brother and sister ecstatically declare their love at the end of the act. Their child, Siegfried, will be the hero of the eponymous next opera in the cycle. And then there are multiple productions that include chemistry between Froh and Freia in Das Rheingold (for which there is a basis in Norse mythology) and/or Hagen and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung (for which there is not).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Combined with Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Siegmund tries to help a girl who's forced into marriage. In doing so, he kills her brothers, breaking her heart, and then the girl, still weeping over the bodies, is in turn killed by vengeful clansmen.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Siegfried, presumably; his father Siegmund however refers to Sieglinde as his "wife", though Fricka, Goddess of Marriage, refuses to recognize it.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Wotan spends the whole saga trying to keep the ring from falling back into Alberich's hands — except that all he had to do was return the ring to the Rhinemaidens, which he couldn't do, because he had to pay Fasolt and Fafner for building Valhalla by giving them the ring; and the main reason he built Valhalla was because Fricka hounded him into it; and the only reason she did that was to keep him home and hopefully stop him from running around cheating on her — so, in the final analysis, the whole mess could have been avoided if Wotan had just kept his dick in his pants.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: The Valkyries' "Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha!" To a lesser extent: Hagen's "Hoiho" in Götterdämmerung.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7d411ea2	type	Ring of Fire
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7d411ea2	comment	Ring of Fire: Brünnhilde is imprisoned in one at the climax of Die Walküre.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7e42e2a2	type	Illegal Guardian
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7e42e2a2	comment	Illegal Guardian: Mime serves as this to Siegfried, in the hope that the boy will kill Fafner for him.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The first step in bringing forth the fall of gods and man? Three beautiful women scorning poor, ugly Alberich until he is so bitter that he renounces love.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7efe2c19	comment	Loge is a combination of Loki (god of cunning) and Logi (personification of fire), in which Wagner was following the scholarship of his time. His name further drives the point home: it is a Portmanteau of the German words Lüge (lie) and Lohe (flame), both of which are expressly used to refer to him in the drama.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Rhinemaidens explain to Alberich that the power of the Rheingold may only be won by renouncing love, and then mercilessly tease him. Yeah, thanks a lot.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Freia, for all her literally vital importance in Das Rheingold, only has six lines (most of them cries for help). However, since the part isn't that demanding vocally, this allows Freia to be sung by young, slender and beautiful women as demanded by the libretto.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_81750a32	type	Full-Potential Upgrade
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_81750a32	comment	Full-Potential Upgrade: Siegfried has a habit of contemptuously snapping Mime's swords in two until Siegfried finally reforges the invincible Nothung.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: How Siegfried defeats Fafner, going straight for the heart. And how Hagen kills Siegfried, after Brünnhilde told him that she didn't protect his back, knowing that Siegfried would never turn his back on a foe.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82912ce0	type	Self-Immolation
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82912ce0	comment	Self-Immolation: Brünnhilde.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Siegfried and Mime in the 2006 Copenhagen Ring are fond of each other deep down, and their quarrels are laced with Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moments. For instance, in the first act’s finale, when Siegfried shows he has forged the sword, Mime absolutely beams with pride. Mime's wish to murder Siegfried and Siegfried killing him are a spur-of-the-moment fight gone out of control rather than the logical outcome of mutual hatred that has been sizzling for years, and Siegfried is devastated when he realises Mime is dead.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_849d24d9	type	Last Kiss
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_849d24d9	comment	Last Kiss: Wotan memorably gives this to Brünnhilde in Walküre.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end Alberich is still around; however, this is appropriate as only he and the Rhinemaidens survive and the Ring Cycle started with them. Some versions don't make it clear what happened to Gutrune, though she is supposed to face Death by Despair.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: "Wagnerian" has become practically a synonym for this.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_87bc9c07	type	Fire/Water Juxtaposition
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_87bc9c07	comment	Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In the finale of Götterdammerung, Siegfried's body is burned and Brunnhilde commits suicide by jumping into the funeral pyre (which eventually destroys both the Palace of the Gibichungs and Valhalla), while Hagen dies by drowning as he tries to get the ring back from the Rhinemaidens in the flooding river.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_888b5b44	type	TheWorldTree
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_888b5b44	comment	The World Tree: The ash tree trunk in Hunding's house (which older sources call an oak or apple tree) may be an attempt to invoke a connection to Yggdrasil.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Siegfried is the hero destined to recover the Ring and rescue Brünnhilde from the ring of magic fire.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: As Siegfried demonstrates by letting one loose on Mime.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8e81efd1	type	Tenor Boy
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8e81efd1	comment	Tenor Boy: Invoked with Siegmund and Siegfried — the more "boyish" Wagnerian rôles, though perhaps subverted by Mime.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8ec5beed	type	Forging Scene
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8ec5beed	comment	Forging Scene: In Siegfried, the eponymous hero reforges his father's shattered sword Nothung, while singing an address to the weapon, „Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert!"
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mime used Siegfried as a pawn to get Fafner's treasure, originally the treasure of Mime's brother Alberich, and intended to poison Siegfried once the boy had killed the dragon. Naturally, very few feel anything for evil-hearted Mime once he has been killed by noble Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mime raised Siegfried for the purpose of defeating Fafner and gaining him the treasure. After Siegfried's success, Mime plans to kill him.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_969fd766	type	Theme Song Reveal
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_969fd766	comment	Theme Song Reveal: One of the basic uses of the Leitmotif, as for instance when the Walhall motif plays when Sieglinde describes the old man who thrust the sword into Hunding's roof-tree.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: After Fricka criticizes Wotan for his bargain, to give Freia to Fasolt and Fafner in exchange for building Walhall note Freia grows the golden apples that give the gods their immortality; without her, they will grow old and weak Wotan criticizes Loge for giving him bad advice, even though the bargain was entirely Wotan's idea, and Loge is only there to get him out of it.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_978355c	type	Orchestral Bombing
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_978355c	comment	Orchestral Bombing: The Walkürenritt.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Every single opera contains all the relevant exposition which makes it possible for them to be performed separately. Interestingly, this was not Wagner's intention: he was adamant that the four operas should be performed on four successive nights.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: In Götterdämmerung, it is unclear to what extent Hagen has a masterplan and to what extent he is winging it. If we are meant to understand that he has masterminded the whole affair, then it is definitely this trope.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Rheinmadens not only let slip to Alberich that the power of the Rheingold can be unlocked by swearing a curse against love, they then tease and mock him until he is so distraught and angry that he does exactly that.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: In the end, Wotan and Alberich aren't too different. Wotan even refers to himself and Alberich as "Light Alberich" and "Black Alberich" at points. Siegfried and Hagen are both illegitimate and both being used to recover the ring, Siegfried by his grandfather Wotan and Hagen by his father Alberich.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9ea277d2	type	Stealing from Thieves
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9ea277d2	comment	Stealing from Thieves: Alberich steals the Rhine-gold, but is robbed of it soon afterwards by Loge and Wotan. Wotan is eager to get the Rhine-gold but wouldn't want to renounce love (which is the necessary condition for stealing the gold from its original place in the Rhine).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The Leitmotif technique, if not invented by Wagner, was certainly perfected by him. In his operas, not only would every character have his/her own motif, but also objects, places, and even abstract ideas, all of which would be woven into a complex symphonic whole, in which the variations of the motifs have a psychological effect far more significant than a mere announcement of a character's presence.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9fb41dce	type	The Weird Sisters
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9fb41dce	comment	The Weird Sisters: In The Rhine-Gold, the Rhine-Maidens are three water-women who guard the magical Rhine-Gold, but lose it to Alberich who forges it into a magical ring. In Act 3 of Götterdämmerung, Siegfried, the present owner of Alberich's ring, accidentally encounters the Rhine-Maidens who warn him about the curse of the ring and urge him to return it to the river. When Siegfried dismisses the warning, they predict Siegfried's death, which comes to pass. In the beginning of Götterdämmerung, the three Norns are seen weaving the thread of Destiny, and sing a song which predicts the burning of Valhalla and the end of the gods. The thread snaps suddenly, foreshadowing that their prophecy will come true by the end of the opera.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Hagen in Götterdämmerung pretends to be this, but he's actually The Chessmaster who suffers from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder — or, at least, makes others suffer from it.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a012ed4f	type	Forged by the Gods
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a012ed4f	comment	Forged by the Gods: The magic sword Nothung, created by Wotan note or, at least, appropriated by him and wielded first by Siegmund and then Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: The "Ride of the Valkyries". "Siegfried's Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung has also been used for funerals in the real world.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: The Valkyries ride magical horses who can run across the sky.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Nothung ("Born of Need"), Wagner's equivalent to the Nibelungenlied 's "Balmung" ("Destruction") or Volsungasaga's "Gram" ("Wrath").
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Ring itself (based on the mythological Andvaranaut, which merely had the power to find gold), which has vast but vaguely-defined powers, and to make which one must renounce love. Unfortunately, its wearers tend to have it stolen from them for various reasons before they can do much with it, and Alberich makes things worse by cursing it, so that disaster comes to any who own it.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Rhinemaidens, who are generally treated by the story as good guys and innocent victims even though it was their cruel taunting of Alberich that drove him evil.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a7544a0f	type	Beneath the Earth
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a7544a0f	comment	Beneath the Earth: Nibelheim.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Plenty of examples in the Ring: Long lost siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde quickly fall in love in Act I of Die Walküre. Siegfried instantly falls in love with Brünnhilde after he braves the magic fire and awakens her with a kiss.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aa55cd25	type	Brawn Hilda
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Brünnhilde is the Trope Namer — but not In-Universe; the trope naming came from stage performances. The part is so physically demanding that generally only a robust woman of strong constitution can perform it. On the other hand, the Prunhilt of the Nibelungenlied is decidedly a woman of tremendous athletic attainments, though it is implied that these have made her only more attractive.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aca2516b	type	My Horse Is a Motorbike
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aca2516b	comment	My Horse Is a Motorbike: In a Detroit Opera production, Brünnhilde's horse Grane was played by a Ford Mustang.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ad8dbae4	type	Public Domain Artifact
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ad8dbae4	comment	Public Domain Artifact: Averted; the Ring (or rather, any of its prototypes) was not a well-known artifact before Wagner.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Alberich does a decidedly abrupt one of these, starting as a inept lover but quickly transforming into an Evil Overlord and staying that way for the rest of the cycle. This also sets the entire rest of the plot in motion.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: The "Ride of the Valkyries" is one of a select group of classical pieces known to practically everyone who knows classical music only from POP Culture references. Likewise, the Ring of the Nibelung itself appears whenever opera is mentioned, but only if "Viking" helmets are involved, and usually without any of the Master's music.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_affbcbb	type	Cool Helmet
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_affbcbb	comment	Cool Helmet: As a result of Döpler's costume designs, in which helmets are adorned by various varieties of horns and wings.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: The libretto of the Ring is written in Stabreim, the ancient Germanic verse-form that was based on alliteration. Thus the opening of Rheingold:
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: Wotan promised Freia to Fasolt and Fafner as payment for constructing Valhalla. Not only did he apparently fail to ask Freia what she thought about this, he also didn't account for Freia providing the enchanted apples that give the gods their immortality. Or he was aware of all this, and was simply hoping that Loge could find some way to get him out of his agreement.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ba43b944	type	Avian Flute
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ba43b944	comment	Avian Flute: In Siegfried, the eponymous hero realizes he can understand a bird (represented by the flute) after tasting the blood of the dragon Fafner, and they have a conversation. The interlude "Forest Murmurs" from that same opera also includes birdcalls on flutes.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: Siegfried shows flashes of this attitude when he first meets Brünnhilde; when the latter is upset about having her breastplate and helmet removed (which deprives her of her Valkyrie powers and leaves her as defenseless as a mortal), Siegfried pays her distress no mind, repeatedly attempting to embrace her (which she rebuffs) and demanding that she "sei mir ein Weib" ("be my woman"), stating "Durch brennendes Feuer fuhr ich zu dir!" ("Through blazing fire I forced my way to you!")
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bc97f0c6	type	Jealous Romantic Witness
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bc97f0c6	comment	Jealous Romantic Witness: In some stagings of Das Rheingold, such as the 2006 Copenhagen production, Wotan openly flirts with Erda and kisses her in front of his long-suffering wife Fricka. In the Copenhagen production, Fricka breaks down crying at the sight, and even the return of her sister from captivity (which was arranged thanks to Erda's prompting) can't console her at first. In Twilight of the Gods, Brünnhilde is dumbfounded when she sees her adored husband Siegfried happily preparing to marry Gutrune. Siegfried has been brainwashed, but she doesn't know that at the moment.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Roy Thomas and Gil Kane produced a direct comic adaptation of the tetralogy, the four-part graphic novel The Ring of the Nibelung (DC, 1990). Each opera got one issue to tell the story resulting in this being a Compressed Adaptation. Due to nudity and violence this is for mature readers.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Wotan is trying to establish a world of order and laws, his actions are nearly always self-serving.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Sieglinde; first in guilt and fear over her Twincest with her brother Siegmund, and again after Siegmund is killed.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c0091e94	type	Dragon Hoard
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c0091e94	comment	Dragon Hoard: Fafner kills his hitherto-bro Fasolt for the Rhine-Gold and is later found transformed into a dragon lying on the gold, until Siegfried kills him and takes the treasure.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Occurs notably in Walküre, when Siegmund sees the gleam of the sword that his father has promised him. The hope proves delusive, of course.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Hagen asks his father Alberich who will inherit the "eternal power" (ewige Macht) of the Ring if he gets it back from Siegfried. Alberich says: "I... and you!" He can't fool his son though.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Where Wagner took opera — I mean, Bühnenfestspiel.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce3f50f0	type	Clever Crows
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce3f50f0	comment	Clever Crows/Creepy Crows: A pair of these are intelligence gatherers for Wotan, and bird-watching them proves fatal to Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: The plot of Walküre is based around an attempt to do so by first Wotan and then Brünnhilde which ultimately fails due to the characters' fundamental dysfunction and the toxic influence of the Ring.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d1f8448d	type	Born Winner
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d1f8448d	comment	Born Winner: Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Wotan likes to think he is this, but actually is easily outgambitted by Fricka and even (in a way) Siegfried. At least one contemporary production (the spectacular Copenhagen Ring, for this and other reasons nicknamed "the Feminist's Ring") plays it straight with Brünnhilde of all people: she not only manipulated Wotan into accepting her terms of punishment, but chose her future husband in doing so — who is not even born at this point, but has already been named by her. Talk about long-term thinking.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: As a matter of fact, the dragon (Fafner) is a transformed giant, possibly through use of the magical Tarnhelm. Alberich briefly becomes a dragon using the Tarnhelm, too.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d8dde631	type	You Are Worth Hell
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d8dde631	comment	You Are Worth Hell: Siegmund rejects eternal glory in Valhalla rather than be separated from wife/sister Sieglinde. See above trope, Twincest.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The Valkyries.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: This is the normal occupation of the Nibelungs. See also Ultimate Blacksmith, below.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: After tasting Fafner's blood grants Siegfried the ability to see through Mime's lies, he (and the audience) hear Mime describe his plans to murder Siegfried, sung in a friendly manner.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dc1c7647	type	Voice of the Legion
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dc1c7647	comment	Voice of the Legion: Fafner, after he becomes a dragon, is subject to various kinds of technological vocal amplification — originally just a speaking trumpet, but using higher and higher tech ever since.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Wotan hits his when he realizes he'll be forced to abandon Siegmund to be killed by Hunding.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: When Mime is first seen his brother Alberich is tormenting him. Then Mime raises Siegfried to kill Fafner so he can get the ring; however, Siegfried is such a jerk to him you can easily feel sorry to him. Mime does try to kill Siegfried, but this certainly seems understandable.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0aced16	comment	Giggling Villain: Mime is often played this way in Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: After reforging Nothung, Siegfried demonstrates its sharpness and power (and his own strength) by chopping the anvil used to forge the blade in half.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0c5d0bc	type	We Are Not Going Through That Again
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0c5d0bc	comment	We Are Not Going Through That Again: Hagen survives the fire and flood in the final act of 'Gotterdämmerung''— and when he tries to get the Ring the Rhinemaidens drown him.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0dbaf11	type	Death by Flashback
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e0dbaf11	comment	Death by Flashback: Happens to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Alberich is just a lovesick dwarf until he gets hold of the Rheingold and makes a ring which makes him a threat to the gods themselves.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Freia in Das Rheingold has her ditzy moments. When she is redeemed from the giants, she is touched and says, "May I hope for it? Do you think Holda really worth all the ransom?" Evidently she doesn't realize that Wotan mostly just wants to keep her for her magical apples, and she also missed Erda's long speech about how Wotan should give up the Ring.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e360ae63	type	Reforged Blade
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e360ae63	comment	Reforged Blade: Nothung, in Siegfried.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e36191	type	The Epic
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e36191	comment	The Epic: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performances range between 13 1/2 (Böhm & Boulez) to 17 hours (Goodall).
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Wotan and his mortal guise Wälse are a combination of Odin and Volsung. Freia is a combination of Freyja (the goddess of love and beauty) and Iðunn (the goddess of youth who had the magical apples). Loge is a combination of Loki (god of cunning) and Logi (personification of fire), in which Wagner was following the scholarship of his time. His name further drives the point home: it is a Portmanteau of the German words Lüge (lie) and Lohe (flame), both of which are expressly used to refer to him in the drama. Fasolt is a composite of Hreiðmar, the dwarf king whose son Loki killed (resulting in Loki stealing Andvari's treasure and ring to pay the weregild) and the unnamed giant who built Valhalla's walls but wanted Freyja in payment (in the myths, Loki stopped him from finishing his work, he wasn't paid, and Thor beat the crap out of him when he got mad about it). Alberich, the dwarf guardian of the Nibelung hoard in the Nibelungenlied, is combined with the dwarf Andvari, the original possessor of the magic ring. (Here again, Wagner was following the scholarship of his time.) Sieglinde is a combination of Signy, sister of Sigmund with whom he had incestuous relations, and Hjördis, wife of Sigmund and mother of Sigurd.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: The leitmotives work as the equivalent of the Greek chorus of old. Advances in composition and music during the Romanticism era lead Richard Wagner to develop this musical technique. Wagner was a Fan Boy of old Greek dramas, especially those of Aeschylus. Thus, he devized a way to make his operas a seamless and endless flow of music, in which commentary about the events happening on stage (much like in the Greek chorus of old) was done by recurring musical phrases: the leitmotives. In a more literal way, the Norns at the prologue of the final opera (Götterdämmerung) work as a traditional Greek chorus: they mention events that so far have happened in the Ring cycle, and they don't interact with any other character in the operas.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Done rather subtly in the Ring, in which often the only difference between Wotan and Alberich is that Wotan somewhat regrets his actions — but does them anyway. Wotan actually refers to himself as „Licht-Alberich" ("Light-Alberich") and to the dwarf as „Schwarz-Alberich" ("Black-Alberich").
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e544916b	type	Kiai
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e544916b	comment	Kiai: The Valkyries use the well-known cry „Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha!"Naturally, their cry is a significant musical Leitmotif.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Falling in love is generally not a good idea in a Wagner opera: Siegmund is killed by Hunding (after Wotan shatters Siegmund's sword), Sieglinde dies in child-birth. Siegfried is speared in the back, Brünnhilde burns herself to death on his funeral-pyre. Gutrune apparently dies of grief.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Götterdämmerung, Siegfried is drugged to forget that he ever met Brünnhilde, but remembers killing Fafner and all his other early deeds. Later, he steals the Ring from Brünnhilde, but promptly forgets this.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ea0f58c0	type	God's Hands Are Tied
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: Why Wotan cannot just kill the giants and take the Ring for himself. It is often thought this is a deconstruction of the idea of divine laws.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ea35fda5	comment	Bastard Bastard: Scheming Hagen, murderer of Siegfried and his own half-brother Gunther.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: In Das Rheingold, Fafner kills his brother Fasolt, and in Götterdämmerung, Hagen murders his half-brother Gunther. Then there is the rivalry between Mime and Alberich.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ed3859cb	type	Tricking the Shapeshifter
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ed3859cb	comment	Tricking the Shapeshifter: Loge captures Alberich by daring him to transform into something small, whereupon Alberich becomes a toad.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": Hagen claims that Siegfried has been slain by a wild boar. It lasts about five seconds before Gutrune unmasks him.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eda3ba	type	Bad to the Bone
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eda3ba	comment	Bad to the Bone: The Looney Tunes series is very fond particularly of the Nibelung and Giant motifs in heralding any sinister doings.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Mime, in his relationship with Alberich.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: The principal sword in the Ring is named Nothung, meaning 'Born of Need'.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f00d01f8	type	Hat of Power
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f00d01f8	comment	Hat of Power: The Tarnhelm, which grants the wearer invisibility, shape-shifting, and teleportation.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Fasolt and Mime both take the role of Regin, the former as Fafner's brother and the latter as Siegfried's evil-hearted foster father.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f1007689	type	"I Am Becoming" Song
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f1007689	comment	"I Am Becoming" Song: Siegfried's song while reforging anew Nothung, the shattered sword of his dead father, is a climactic piece in the whole cycle and taken as his rite of passage from boy to man.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f109b8e5	type	Reluctant Gift
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f109b8e5	comment	Reluctant Gift: Wotan is hesitant to give away Alberich's Ring as payment to the giants for the building of Valhalla. Erda has to convince him to do this.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f1356f5e	type	Speaks Fluent Animal
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Siegfried can do this after tasting the dragon's blood.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f5fe65a3	type	Heavy Mithril
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f5fe65a3	comment	Heavy Mithril: It may be classical music and Older Than Radio, but it's still a textbook example.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f6c22b5e	type	Verbal Backpedaling
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_f6c22b5e	comment	Verbal Backpedaling: In Siegfried, the dragon's blood acts as a reverse Truth Serum, allowing Siegfried (and the audience) to hear through Mime's lies. Several times, Mime lets his malicious intent slip; Siegfried questions him; he objects that he didn't say anything untoward, then continues in a soothing tone telling Siegfried He Has Outlived His Usefulness.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_fe48cea2	type	Lady of War
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: The Valkyries, particularly Brünnhilde.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_fee9e9a2	type	Divine Date
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_fee9e9a2	comment	Divine Date: Siegfried and Brünnhilde, since the latter is a daughter of Wotan.
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The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Polite Villains, Rude Heroes / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Prolonged Prologue / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rapid Aging / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Reluctant Gift / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ring of Power / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Royal Bastard / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Slave Liberation / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spared by the Adaptation / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Stealing from Thieves / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Stylistic Suck / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	That Liar Lies / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Starscream / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Weird Sisters / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Trash the Set / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tricking the Shapeshifter / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Twincest / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ultimate Blacksmith / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Verbal Backspace / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Weapons Breaking Weapons / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Where It All Began / int_b5c36a42
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre)	hasFeature	Wrecked Weapon / int_b5c36a42
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