The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung
8.4
THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde and fall in love with Günter's sister Gutrane. Siegfried has given Brünnhilde the Ring as a token of their love, but her Valkyrie sister urges her to destroy it, because their father Wotan has lost his spear and power and is hiding out in Valhalla. Instead, Brünnhilde keeps it, and under the influence of the potion, Siegfried steals it from her. Enraged, Brünnhilde helps Alberich's son murder Siegfried, but Siegfried's memory returns, and he dies thinking of Brünnhilde. Brünnhilde repents and orders a funeral pyre to be built. She rides into the fire herself, and the Rhinemaidens get the ring back. The story closes with flames flickering about Valhalla in the background. Filmed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in June & July 1991.
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Cast
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Siegfried Jerusalem
Siegfried
Also in
Götterdämmerung
Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim
Conductor
Bodo Brinkmann
Gunther
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
Philip Kang
Hagen
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Siegfried
The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
Günter von Kannen
Alberich
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
L’Italiana in Algeri
Anne Evans
Brünnhilde
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Siegfried
The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure
Eva-Maria Bundschuh
Gutrune
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure
Waltraud Meier
Waltraude
Also in
Tristan und Isolde
Carmen
Birgitta Svendén
1. Norne
Also in
Siegfried
The Ring Cycle: Siegfried
Linda Finnie
2. Norne
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure
The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
Uta Priew
3. Norne
Also in
Tristan und Isolde
Hilde Leidland
Woglinde
Also in
The Ring Cycle: Siegfried
The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
Harry Kupfer Director · Richard Wagner Writer Horant H. Hohlfeld Cinematographer
United States release February 28, 2006 · Produced in Germany · Original title Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung
Production
Bayreuther Festspiele
Production
Germany
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Original title
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · July 4, 1991
Theatrical
United States · February 28, 2006
Theatrical
United Kingdom
July 4, 1991 · Theatrical
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