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Among the new characters\nis Hagen, son of Alberich and half-brother to Gunther, King of the\nGibichungs, and his sister Gutrune. It is Hagen that drives the plot of the\nopera, by scheming and treachery, in order to win the ring for himself. \u003cem\u003eSiegfried\u003c\/em\u003e may have ended with the jubilant union of Brünnhilde and\nSiegfried, but \u003cem\u003eGötterdämmerung\u003c\/em\u003e quickly unravels all that\nhappiness. After another rapturous duet, gloriously sung by Birgit Nilsson\nand Hans Hopf, Brünnhilde sends Siegfried off on new adventures,\nunwittingly setting up the final demise of the Gods and Valhalla. Siegfried\nencounters Hagen and the Gibichung siblings, only to be tricked by Hagen\ninto drinking a potion that makes him forget Brünnhilde and fall in love\nwith Gutrune. Siegfried asks for Gutrune’s hand in marriage and offers to\nwin the former warrior-maiden Brünnhilde as a wife for Gunther.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBy Act 2, after being forced by Siegfried to follow him to the Hall of the\nGibichungs, Hagen facilitates Brünnhilde’s discovery of the betrayal and\njoins in a plot for vengeance with a hesitant Gunther. Brünnhilde reveals\nSiegfried’s only vulnerability to them: his back, which he would never turn\non an enemy. In Act 3, Hagen takes advantage of this knowledge (after\nrestoring Siegfried’s memory of Brünnhilde) by killing Siegfried’s using\nhis supposed betrayal of Gunther as the reason for the murder. Brünnhilde\nfinally becomes aware of Hagen’s treachery and taking the ring from the\ndead Siegfried’s hand, rides into his funeral pyre on her horse, Grane.\nAfter dragging Hagen to his death in the depths of the Rhine, the\nRhinemaidens retrieve the ring, which restores peace to the world. Of\ncourse, the plot is rather more complicated and intricate than this short\nsummary allows for, but the score, being a masterpiece of leitmotifs,\nreminds the careful listener of plot lines stretching back to the very\nbeginning of the entire cycle.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nReprising their roles from the previous operas are, in addition to Nilsson\nand Hopf, Ralph Herbert as Alberich and Martina Arroyo, Rosalind Elias and\nMignon Dunn as the Rhinemaidens (Arroyo also sings the Third Norn in this\nperformance). Other soloists return in new roles. Irene Dalis, Fricka in\nboth \u003cem\u003eDas Rheingold\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDie Walküre\u003c\/em\u003e, appears as the Second\nNorn and as Waltraute, who comes to seek her sister’s help trying to\nconvince her to return the ring to the Rhinemaidens. Gladys Kuchta,\npreviously heard as Sieglinde in \u003cem\u003eDie Walküre\u003c\/em\u003e, now assumes the\nother demurely feminine role in the Ring, Gutrune. Norman Mittlemann,\nDonner in \u003cem\u003eDas Rheingold\u003c\/em\u003e is now our Gunther and Jean Madeira, our\nErda in \u003cem\u003eDas Rheingold\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSiegfried\u003c\/em\u003e is heard as the First\nNorn. Most significantly, Gottlob Frick, briefly heard off-stage in \u003cem\u003eSiegfried\u003c\/em\u003e as Fafner, now assumes the role of Hagen, with his\ncavernous, black-hued sound. His is a powerfully malevolent\ncharacterization, in total command of everyone he comes into contact with.\nAll told this is a cast of the highest international calibre, such as could\nbe heard in Bayreuth and other leading opera houses in the early 1960s.\nHopf gives us some lovely wistful singing as he recalls his love for\nBrünnhilde in Act 3 and lastly, Nilsson continues to amaze with her\ngleaming voice and laser-like high notes. She is frighteningly vengeful in\nAct 2, yet recaptures Brünnhilde’s nobility in a stirring account of the\nImmolation Scene at the end of the opera.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nErich Leinsdorf once again elicits lustrous playing from the orchestra,\nparticularly in the extended orchestral interludes of Siegfried’s Rhine\nJourney and Funeral March. 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