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Title: Opera Stories from Wagner

Author: Florence Akin

Release Date: July 24, 2004 [EBook #9456]

Language: English

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OPERA STORIES FROM WAGNER

BY

FLORENCE AKIN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

1915

[Illustration: SIEGFRIED]

NOTE: The verses printed in this book are quoted from Dr. Oliver
Huckel's translations of _The Rhine-Gold_, _The Walkuere_,
_Siegfried_, and _Goetterdaemmerung_, by the kind permission
of the publishers, Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. An
occasional sentence in several of the stories is borrowed
from the same source.

CONTENTS

THE RHINE-GOLD
THE HAPPY RHINE-DAUGHTERS
ALBERICH
THE CARELESS RHINE-DAUGHTERS
THE THEFT
THE SAD RHINE-DAUGHTERS
A CASTLE ON THE RHINE
THE MORNING
THE PAYMENT
LOKI
YOUTH OR AGE?
NIBELHEIM
THE BEST SMITH IN NIBELHEIM
THE MASTER
THE BOASTER
THE WISHING-CAP
THE TRICK
THE CURSE
THE GREEDY FAFNER
A SLAVE TO GOLD
THE BEAUTIFUL VALHALLA

THE WALKUERE
A MATCHLESS SWORD
THE VALIANT SIEGMUND
HUNDING'S WIFE
HUNDING
THE WAR-MAIDENS
WOTAN'S WIFE
WOTAN AND BRUNHILDE
OFF TO THE BATTLEFIELD
THE FLIGHT
THE PUNISHMENT
THE SLEEP
THE MAGIC FIRE

SIEGFRIED
THE MISSING MIMI
THE DRAGON
A BABY IN THE FOREST
MIMI AND THE BABY
SIEGFRIED AND HIS FRIENDS
THE BROKEN SWORD
A BIG BROWN BEAR
SIEGFRIED AND MIMI
SIEGFRIED MENDS HIS FATHER'S SWORD
SIEGFRIED GOES TO FIGHT THE DRAGON
A WOOD-BIRD'S SONG
SIEGFRIED AND THE DRAGON
A CHANGE COMES OVER SIEGFRIED
MIMI HAS A SURPRISE
MIMI AND ALBERICH STOP TO QUARREL TOO LONG
SIEGFRIED REACHES THE MOUNTAIN
SIEGFRIED LEARNS WHAT FEAR IS
THE AWAKENING

GOETTERDAEMMERUNG
A SONG OF THE PAST
A SONG OF THE PRESENT
A SONG OF THE FUTURE
A PLEDGE OF LOVE
THE DOOM OF VALHALLA
LOVE

MORE ABOUT THE STORIES

ILLUSTRATIONS

SIEGFRIED
THE RHINE-MA