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.