Act 2 and Closing Scene, Act 3
Music drama in three acts Words and music by Wagner
Sung in German on gramophone records
Continued in next column
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS and the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GEORG SOLTI
Acr 2: Gunther's castle on the Rhine
ACT 3: A wooded district by the Rhine
Siegfried has given the all-powerful Ring of the Nibelungs to his bride. Brünnhilde. The evil Hagen, plotting to steal the ring, tricks Siegfalls tn love with Gutrune. To win her hand. he captures Brünnhilde hs a bride for Gutrune's bruther. Gunther. Brünnhilde denounees Siegfried and, together with Hagen and Gunther. plans to kill him.
By the end of Act three. Brünnhilde has learnt the truth, but Sit'g-fried is dead. She orders a great funeral pyre to be erected and rides into it. Valhalla itself is in flames: the power of the gods ts ended