“Das Rheingold”

Characters Woglinde (a Rhine daughter) - soprano Wellgunde (a Rhine daughter) - soprano Flosshilde (a Rhine daughter) - mezzo-soprano Alberich (king of the Nibelungs) - bass-baritone Fricka (goddess of marriage) - mezzo-soprano Wotan (ruler of the gods) - bass-baritone Freia (goddess of youth and beauty) - soprano Fasolt (a giant) - baritone Fafner (a giant, brother of Fasolt) - bass Froh (the fair god) - tenor Donner (god of thunder) - baritone Loge (half-god of fire) - tenor Mime (brother of Alberich) - tenor Erda (earth mother, goddess of wisdom) - contralto

libretto by Frederick Jameson