SIEGFRIED
GUNTHER
HAGEN
ALBERICH
BRÜNNHILDE
GUTRUNE
WALTRAUTE
THE THREE NORNS
THE RHINE-MAIDENS
VASSALS
WOMEN
SCENES OF ACTION
PRELUDE: ON THE VALKYRIES' ROCK
| I. | THE HALL OF GUNTHER'S DWELLING ON THE RHINE. THE VALKYRIES' ROCK |
| II. | IN FRONT OF GUNTHER'S HALL |
| III. | A WOODED REGION ON THE RHINE. GUNTHER'S HALL |
PRELUDE
The curtain rises slowly. The scene is the same as at the close of the second day, on the Valkyries' rock; night. In the background, from below, firelight shines. The three Norns, tall women in long, dark, veil-like drapery. The first (eldest) lies in the foreground, to the right, under the spreading pine-tree; the second (younger) is stretched on a shelving rock in front of the cave; the third (youngest) fits in the centre at the back on a rock near the peak. Motionless, gloomy silence.