played the Rhinemaidens' lament at the piano, on the night before he died in Venice, in 1883. Alone of the Ring's characters, the Rhinemaidens do not originate...
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and his most rigid adherence to them, despite a few deviations – the Rhinemaidens frequently sing in ensemble. As the "preliminary evening" within the...
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Waltraute's Monologue). Waltraute begs Brünnhilde to return the ring to the Rhinemaidens, but Brünnhilde refuses to relinquish the pledge of Siegfried's love...
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during World War II. Its name comes from the mythical Rheintöchter (Rhinemaidens) of Richard Wagner's opera series Der Ring des Nibelungen. The missile...
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derived from 19th-century literature, among other nixies such as the Rhinemaidens the Weiße Frauen and Witte Wiwer, white female spirits the Doppelgänger...
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Richard Wagner's The Ring "The Rhinemaidens warn Siegfried", illustration to Richard Wagner's The Ring "The Rhinemaidens try to reclaim their gold", illustration...
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restaged by Herbert Kellner with minor changes ... The bungee-jumping Rhinemaidens and the Valkyries on trampolines from the original production, choreographed...
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greet each other and sing their battle-cry. Apart from the song of the Rhinemaidens in Das Rheingold, it is the only ensemble piece in the first three operas...
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gods as Brünnhilde returns the ring, which confers power, back to the Rhinemaidens from whom its gold was stolen in the first place. There are several magic...
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and the Danube in Þiðreks saga, hence Wagner's reinvention of them as Rhinemaidens. MHG: ane; modern German: Ahn. Tracing this etymologically to Old Norse...
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