THE NIBELUNGEN RING.
A Festival-Play in three days and a fore-evening by RICHARD WAGNER.
THE RHINEGOLD.
The grand dramatic work, which cannot any longer with justice be called an opera, differing as it does so considerably from the ordinary style of these, is the result of many years of study and hard work.
Wagner took the subject from the German mythology, the oldest representative of which is found in the Edda.
We have first to do with the fore-evening, called the "Rhinegold."
The first scene is laid in the very depths of the Rhine, where we see three nymphs, frolicking in the water. They are the guardians of the Rhinegold which glimmers on a rock.