GD12 · Show · Götterdämmerung
Hagen's Watch
Hagen sits alone at the door of the darkening hall, waiting for the Ring. His blows knock the house dark, a gold vision of the Ring sweeps round it, and the night gathers in on him.
1:30 · with a spoken intro
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Götterdämmerung
GD01The NornsIntro1:21Night on the rock. Three grey sisters, the Norns, throw a golden rope of fate back and forth across the whole house, singing of the gods, their castle and the fire.GD02The Rope BreaksIntro1:26The Norns sing of the Ring and its curse, and the golden rope turns red and frays until it snaps. The broken ends whip away across the house and the Norns sink into the earth.GD03DawnIntro1:13Daybreak over the mountain: wave after wave of colour races across the house from the east, red to gold to white, until Siegfried and Brünnhilde stand on the summit in full morning.GD04Zu neuen TatenIntro1:29Siegfried must ride out to new adventures. He gives Brünnhilde the Ring as a pledge, a gold flash that races round the house, and she gives him her horse Grane, galloping in silver sweeps.GD05Heil, Brünnhilde!Intro1:22The lovers say goodbye in a blaze of emerald and silver, answering faster and faster until they sing as one. Then his horn rings out and he leaves the mountain while she waves him away.GD06Siegfried's Rhine JourneyIntro1:28Siegfried's horn carries him down the mountain to the Rhine, and the whole house becomes the river, rushing end to end with his emerald boat racing along it, until the water darkens toward an unfriendly hall.GD07The GibichungsIntro1:23A torchlit hall on the Rhine: King Gunther in gold, his sister Gutrune in rose, and in the shadows their half-brother Hagen, whose every word lands like a blow.GD08Hagen's PlanIntro1:23Hagen has a plan: a bride for Gunther, a husband for Gutrune, and a potion to make it happen. Its sickly violet seeps out of the shadows until it floods the whole house.GD09Siegfried ArrivesIntro1:28A horn on the river, and Siegfried's boat lands at the hall. Hagen hails him by name, and under the welcome a curse seeps up blood red.GD10The PotionIntro1:26Gutrune offers Siegfried a drink. He drinks to Brunnhilde, the potion wipes her from his memory in a tide of violet, and he burns for Gutrune instead.GD11Blood BrotherhoodIntro1:25Siegfried and Gunther cut their arms, mix their blood in a horn and swear brotherhood, emerald and gold across the house. Hagen refuses to drink, and the two of them sail off for the fire rock.GD12Hagen's WatchIntro1:30Hagen sits alone at the door of the darkening hall, waiting for the Ring. His blows knock the house dark, a gold vision of the Ring sweeps round it, and the night gathers in on him.GD13WaltrauteIntro1:24A Valkyrie storms onto the rock out of a thundercloud and begs her sister to give the Ring back to the Rhine before the gods are destroyed. Brünnhilde refuses, and Waltraute flees in the storm.GD14The False GuntherIntro1:24At dusk a stranger walks through the fire: Siegfried, disguised by magic as Gunther. He wrestles the Ring from Brünnhilde, and lays his sword between them for the night.GD15AlberichIntro1:23Night on the shore. Hagen sleeps by his spear, and his father Alberich comes to him in a dream: red waves against violet, the Ring racing round the house, until he swears to win it. Then a red dawn.GD16Hoiho!Intro1:24At dawn Hagen blows the great cowhorn and calls his men to arms. Every blast shakes the whole house, horns answer from every side, and the vassals come running.GD17The VassalsIntro1:28The men come running with torches from every side until the whole house is a sea of flames, stamping on the beat. Hagen commands them, they roar with laughter, and Gunther arrives with his bride-to-be.GD18The Ring on His HandIntro1:29Gunther leads in his bride, pale and silent. Then she sees Siegfried, and the Ring on his hand: a blinding gold flash, a blood red curse to both ends, and her silver blazing up in fury.GD19The Oath on the SpearIntro1:28Siegfried swears on Hagen's spear that he is innocent, emerald strikes flying up it. Brünnhilde seizes the same spear and swears he lies, in bigger silver strikes over every run, and the men roar.GD20VengeanceIntro1:25Brünnhilde, Gunther and Hagen swear Siegfried's death. Silver, gold and violet run round the house faster and faster, braiding together until they become one, and blood red floods out to both ends.GD21The Wedding ProcessionIntro1:20The cowhorns blast, the hall doors open, and the double wedding sweeps out round the whole house in rose, gold, emerald and silver over a sea of swaying torches. Then the murder plot breaks through.GD22The RhinemaidensIntro1:26Three river spirits play in the Rhine and beg Siegfried for the golden Ring. He laughs at them, and they warn him he will die before the day is out.GD23The HuntIntro1:29The hunting party finds Siegfried by the river, and he tells them his story: the forge, the dragon, the bird. Then Hagen hands him a drink, and he remembers Brünnhilde.GD24The RavensIntro1:23Two ravens fly up, and while Siegfried turns to watch them Hagen drives his spear into his back. Hagen walks away into the dusk, and the hero lies dying among the torches.GD25Heilige BrautIntro1:28Dying, Siegfried remembers the morning he woke Brünnhilde, and the whole house fills with her silver and gold. He greets her one last time, and dies.GD26Siegfried's Funeral MarchIntro1:27The vassals carry Siegfried's body through the night by torchlight, to the real Funeral March: the death rhythm, the sword, the hero, his horn grown vast, and his bride.GD27The Dead HandIntro1:27Siegfried's body is brought home. Hagen kills Gunther for the Ring, but when he reaches for it the dead man's hand rises against him. Then Brünnhilde arrives.GD28Brünnhilde's ImmolationIntro1:28Brünnhilde orders a great pyre built for Siegfried, takes the Ring from his hand and sends the ravens home to Valhalla. Then she hurls a torch, and the pyre goes up in flames.GD29Valhalla BurnsIntro1:21Brünnhilde mounts her horse and rides straight into the fire. The flames take the whole house, and in the middle of them Valhalla, the castle of the gods, burns and falls.GD30RedemptionIntro1:28The Rhine overflows and puts out the fire. The Rhinemaidens take back the Ring, Hagen is dragged under, Valhalla falls, and the house blooms into a last radiant glow: the end of the Ring.GD31IntermissionIntermission5:00The house glows dusk purple while fire-gold closes in toward the porch, counting down five minutes through dawn light and Rhine ripples, until a brass fanfare calls everyone back.
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Short, bright pieces meant to be watched. The FSEQ (v2, zstd, 40 fps) plays in Falcon Player on a house with the same layout; see About for how it is made.