L’Or du Rhin

L’Or du Rhin , originally entitled Das Rheingold, is an opera in a single act and four tableaux constituting the prologue to L’Anneau du Nibelung for which Richard Wagner wrote the score and libretto. It was given its world premiere at the Hoftheater in Munich on 22 September 1869, but it was not presented with the other units of Wagner’s trilogy until its production of 13 August 1876 at Bayreuth. It was given in French for the first time on 31 October 1898, when it was billed at the Théâtre…