DESCRIPTION:
pf: Georg Solti cond/ Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Year/Date of Composition: 1856-71

Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen
Mime: Gerhard Stolze
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Wanderer: Hans Hotter
Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger
Fafner: Kurt Böhme
Erda: Marga Höffgen
Waldvogel: Joan Sutherland

SYNOPSIS: http://www.wagneroperas.com/indextwilight1.html
LIBRETTO: http://www.murashev.com/opera/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung_libretto_English_German

0:00 - ACT ONE, SCENE ONE (Mime's forge)
4:24 - (Mime complains that Siegfried keeps breaking his swords)
7:58 - (Siegfried comes running in with a bear as a prank; he expresses his disdain for Mime by breaking his latest sword.)
21:32 - (Mime reveals to Siegfried that his mother died during childbirth)
30:51 - SCENE TWO (A "Wanderer" enters the forge) [see synopsis]
55:10 - SCENE THREE (Mime has a vision of the dragon and the Ring)
56:12 - (Siegfried arrives, hoping that Mime has been working on the sword)
59:29 - (Siegfried says he has never felt fear before)
1:02:56 - (Mime tells Siegfried where he can learn fear: Fafner's cave)
1:03:57 - (Siegfried decides that he will set off into the world with Nothung in order to learn fear; he breaks it into splinters)
1:06:14 - (Meanwhile, Mime plots how to obtain the Ring after Siegfried kills Fafner)
1:07:56 - (Siegfried starts blowing the fire with the bellows to melt the sword splinters)
1:13:10 - (After pouring the metal into a mold [1:12:43], he dips it in a bucket of water)
1:14:06 - (Siegfried uses the bellows to heat up the steel; meanwhile Mime starts preparing his lethal concoction)
1:16:23 - "Hoho! Hoho! Hahei!" (Siegfried re-forges Nothung; when finished, he strikes and breaks the anvil)

1:22:12 - ACT TWO, SCENE ONE (Outside Fafner's lair, nighttime)
1:27:28 - (Alberich is outside Fafner's cave, brooding about his lost treasure, the Ring)
1:29:34 - (The Wanderer comes and explains to Alberich that Mime is after the Ring too)
1:37:12 - (The Wanderer suggests to Alberich that if he warns Fafner of his upcoming death, he might hand over the Ring to Alberich; he wakes Fafner and tells him about Siegfried's plan)
1:40:04 - (Fafner turns down the offer: "Let me slumber)
1:44:14 - SCENE TWO (Daybreak; Mime and Siegfried arrive at the lair)
1:45:34 - (Mime warns Siegfried of the dangers posed by Fafner; but Siegfried is confident he will defeat him)
1:52:09 - Forest Murmurs
2:00:23 - (Siegfried blows his hunting horn...and wakes Fafner [2:02:13])
2:04:39 - (Siegfried and Fafner fight; Siegfried stabs the heart with his sword [2:05:30])
2:08:56 - (Fafner: "The person who set you against me plots your death". Fafner dies)
2:10:39 - (Siegfried removes the sword, the blood burns his fingers, he inadvertently licks them; he beings to understand the woodbird's song [2:11:32], which tells him about the Tarnhelm and the Ring which can be found inside the cave)
2:12:42 - SCENE THREE (Mime and Alberich quarrel over who will take which part of the treasure)
2:14:52 - (Siegfried emerges from the cave, holding the Tarnhelm and the Ring. The woodbird warns him of Mime's plot)
2:18:22 - (Mime approaches Siegfried to talk about the treasure, but keeps inadvertently revealing his plot to kill Siegfried. He offers his poisonous draught...)
2:25:45 - (Siegfried kills Mime with his sword, then laments his solitude)
2:32:08 - (The woodbird tells Siegfried about a lone bride, called Brunnhilde, asleep on a mountain top surrounded by flames; only those without fear may awaken her.)
2:35:01 - (Siegfried: "How do I get to the fell?" The woodbird shows the way.)

2:36:06 - ACT THREE, SCENE ONE (Storm; at the base of a large mountain)
2:38:27 - (The Wanderer summons Erda from her sleep).
2:40:03 - (Erda emerges from the earth; she evades the Wanderer's questions)
2:50:37 - (The Wanderer proclaims Siegfried as his heir, and the one who will redeem the world through the power of love.)
2:54:30 - SCENE TWO (Siegfried approaches the mountain base; the woodbird flies off)
2:55:23 - (Siegfried asks if the Wanderer knows the way. The Wanderer asks how he came to know about Brunnhilde. Siegfried grows impatient with his questions.)
3:00:01 - (The Wanderer explains that Siegfried is his missing eye. The Wanderer warns Siegfried not to anger him [3:01:06], but Siegfried just wants to get on that mountain...)
3:02:48 - (The Wanderer totally loses it; he intensifies the ring of fire and blocks Siegfried from the mountain path)
3:05:28 - (Siegfried cuts the Wanderer's spear in half; the Wanderer realises he is effectively powerless, and disappears)
3:07:04 - (Siegfried proceeds towards the blazing ring of fire)
3:10:09 - SCENE THREE (Mountain top; Siegfried sees Brunnhilde lying below a fir tree [3:12:52])
3:17:15 - (As Siegfried approaches Brunnhilde to kiss her, Siegfried feels fear for the first time [3:18:29])
3:24:21 - Brunnhilde's Awakening/Love Duet
3:45:22 - [Basis for the "Siegfried Idyll"]