Word: walhalla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waters of the Rhine closed over the fateful Ring; swaggering Siegfried, murdered, burned on a giant pyre, Brünnhilde with him; Walhalla flamed red in the sky and, greed punished, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph...
...cries Alberich. Then lovely Erda, mother of the Norns, appears to Wotan. "Twilight shall come upon the gods," she says; "their proud towers will crash down. Woe to Wotan." Shaken by this awful utterance, Wotan gives the ring to the Giants, forthwith leads the gods over a rainbow to Walhalla while through the brassy progress of his going rings a sound of far despair-the cry of the Rhinemaidens who lament, with sad throats from the depths of the river...
...Walkure. Wotan shivered in Walhalla, fearful of his enemies who possessed the ring. Therefore he dressed like a man and, suiting his behavior to the part, begot some descendants (The Race of the Walsungs) one of whom, he determined, should regain the ring...