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22/09/1869 Wagner's 'The Rhinegold' is heard for the first time

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Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold Prelude

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Wagner's Dream: The Opening Bars of Rheingold

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Alberich Steals the Rhinegold

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Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Der Ring des Nibelungen - part 3

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Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Der Ring des Nibelungen - part 16, Finale

The Rhinegold, WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich in 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, in 1876.
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