Word: alberich
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...every last one had been sold. Forthwith Manager Edward Johnson, by announcing that The Nibelungen Ring would be repeated in an evening series, precipitated another frantic rush for seats. This week the orchestra will sound out the rolling E flat chord which introduces Das Rheingold. The dwarfed, matty-haired Alberich will snatch the gold from the river's depths only to be tricked by the gods. Thus the way will be paved for the colossal musical saga which tracks through a dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending only, when greed has completed its own destruction...
...Rheingold. To the river-nymphs who lodge in twilight on the Rhine's green bottom, comes Alberich, a dwarf, whose ears have been pierced with the sweetness of their music and whose eyes have been dazzled by the gold over which they watch. In mockery they tell him that, if he forswears love, he will have power to steal the Rheingold; that if he steals the Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes him invisible...
...artists will play the following parts: Brunnhilde, Mme. Gadski Erda, Mme. Schumann-Heink Waldvogel, Mme. Alma Gluck Mime, Mr. Albert Reiss Der Wanderer, Mr. Clarence Whitehill Alberich, Mr. Otto Goritz Fafner, Mr. Basil Ruysdael Siegfried, Mr. Johannes Sembach Conductor, Mr. Alfred Hertz...
...second act shows Alberich near the dragon's cave, waiting for an opportunity to get the gold. Wotan enters and announces that Siegfried is on the way, and suggests that Alberich offer this knowledge to the dragon in return for the ring. To this, however, the dragon replies with a yawn, and turns again to sleep. Day dawns as Mime and Siegfried enter. Mime tries vainly to excite Siegfried with fear. Blowing a loud fanfare on his horn. Siegfried wakes the dragon, who advances to meet him. In the ensuing fight Siegfried kills the dragon, but accidentally tastes...
...History of Oberon" is contributed by Mr. C. H. C. Wright, who traces the fairy king back to the French poem of about 1200. He attributes the myth to the same source as that of Alberich of the Nibelungenlied; and considers that the Oberons of Shakespeare and later writers "are far inferior cretions" to the original...