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Wagnerian opera, with "Die"
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gotterdammerung
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(; Twilight of the Gods ), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner 's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung , or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from German Götterdämmerung , literally "twilight of the gods," used by Wagner as the title of the last opera in the Ring cycle; used in English from 1909 in the figurative sense of "complete overthrow" of something.
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Now it is probable that some of us will have been so talked by the more superstitious Bayreuth pilgrims into regarding Die Gotterdammerung as the mighty climax to a mighty epic, more Wagnerian than all the other three sections put together, as not to dare notice this startling atavism, especially if we find the trio-conjurations more exhilarating than the metaphysical discourses of Wotan in the three true music dramas of The Ring.
Die Gotterdammerung, though the last of The Ring dramas in order of performance, was the first in order of conception and was indeed the root from which all the others sprang.